Arabic vocabulary

خِدْنِa friend in Arabic

خِدْنِ is how you say “a friend” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فَشَرِبْتُ يَوْمًا عِنْدَ خِدْنِ لَيِّ حَتَّى ثَمِلْتُ وَزَالَ عَقْلِي،
One day I drank at a man's house until I became intoxicated and my mind left me.
خِدْنِ — a friend. This noun stands directly after the location word and so takes the genitive ending it requires. It is also the first half of an 'of' pairing with the word after it, meaning it hands its definiteness down the chain and is itself 'owned' by what follows, building a 'the place of so-and-so' phrase.
From: A Night of Reckoning →

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