Arabic vocabulary
أُوقِيَّةٍa small coin in Arabic
أُوقِيَّةٍ is how you say “a small coin” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَاشْتَرَاهُ مِنِّي بِأُوقِيَّةٍ،
Then he bought it from me for a small coin.
بِأُوقِيَّةٍ — for a small coin. Here bi- is the 'for' of price, naming what was paid in exchange. It governs the following coin-name into the genitive, and the indefinite ending on that noun shows the amount was an unspecified single coin.
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