Arabic vocabulary
كَمِينٌ is how you say “an ambush” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَلَا يَزَالُ يَخْرُجُ عَلَيْهَا مِنْ جُيُوشِهِمْ كَمِينٌ بَعْدَ كَمِينٍ،
So their armies continue to send out ambush after ambush against it,
كَمِينٌ — an ambush. An indefinite singular noun, 'an ambush', and it is the subject doing the emerging in this clause. Its indefinite ending, with no 'the', sets up the repetition that the next words spell out, 'ambush after ambush', framing it as one of an endless series.
From: Ignoring God's Guidance →OpenArabic teaches words like كَمِينٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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