Arabic vocabulary
زِينَةٌ is how you say “adornment” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
لَا تَعْجَبَنَّكُمَا زِينَتُهُ وَلَا مَا مُتِّعَ بِهِ،
Do not let its adornment, nor what you have been given of it, amaze you two.
زِينَتُهُ — its adornment. This noun has -hu, the 'its' possessor, fused to its end, pointing back to the world being warned against, so one word means 'its adornment'. Within the prohibition it is the thing doing the amazing, the grammatical subject of the verb. The possessor reaches back to an earlier referent, not the nearest noun.
From: Under God's Shield →OpenArabic teaches words like زِينَةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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