Arabic vocabulary

زَنَهَارَan onomatopoeic cry in Arabic

زَنَهَارَ is how you say “an onomatopoeic cry” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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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