زَنَهَارَan onomatopoeic cry

Example sentences

• وَالْأَعْجَمِيُّ يَصِيحُ زَنَهَارَ وَالْبَنِينَ

  And the non-Arab cries out an onomatopoeic cry, and the boys.

  زَنَهَارَ — an onomatopoeic cry. A cry-word — an exclamatory sound rather than a regular grammatical noun — standing as the content of what is shouted. Such fixed interjections do not take normal case endings or fit the usual subject-object slots; they simply voice the outburst. Its exact form is uncertain in the source.

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