Arabic vocabulary
How to say “a time” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَقَالَ لِأُمْيَّةَ اِنْظُرْ لِيَّ سَاعَةَ خَلْوَةِ لَعَلَّيَ أَنْ أَطُوفَ بِالْبَيْتِ
He said to Umayya, "Find for me a time of seclusion; perhaps I may circumambulate the House."
سَاعَةَ — a time. A noun in the object (accusative) shape as the thing being sought; it heads an 'of' pairing with the next word. It means a span of time and leans on the following noun to specify which span.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →OpenArabic teaches words like سَاعَةَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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