Arabic vocabulary
الظَّهْرَانِal-Zahran
How to say “al-Zahran” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَأَقْبَلُوا يَسِيرُونَ حَتَّى أَتَوْا مَرَّ الظَّهْرَانِ،
They then set out walking until they reached Marr al-Zahran.
الظَّهْرَانِ — al-Zahran. The second part of the place-name, which happens to be in the dual shape, Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' form that English lacks. Here, though, it is frozen as a proper name, so the 'two' meaning is just part of the fixed label rather than an active count.
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