Arabic vocabulary
How to say “a dream” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
إِنْ كُنْتَ رَأَيْتَ رُؤْيًا فَاقْصِصْهَا عَلَيَّ
If you saw a dream, relate it to me.
رُؤْيًا — a dream. An indefinite noun in the object form, its ending marking it as the thing seen, the direct object of the verb before it. The bare, no-'the' shape with that ending presents 'a dream' as a single unspecified instance.
From: A Night of Reckoning →فَكَانَ لَا يَرَى رُؤْيًا إِلَّا جَاءَتْ مِثْلَ فَلَقِ الصُّبْحِ،
He would see no vision except that it came like the break of dawn.
رُؤْيًا — a vision. This noun is the thing seen, the object of the verb, and its indefinite '-an' ending marks it as 'any vision at all' rather than a known one. That indefiniteness is what makes the sweeping 'no vision except' reading work.
From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →OpenArabic teaches words like رُؤْيًا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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