Arabic vocabulary
أَوْقِيَّةan ounce
How to say “an ounce” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَأَمَرَ بِلَالًا أَنْ يَزِنَ لَهُ أَوْقِيَّةً
So he ordered Bilal to weigh an ounce for him.
أَوْقِيَّةً — an ounce. This is a measure-noun, indefinite (no al-) and in the accusative as the thing weighed out. It is the quantity the order concerns, the object of 'weigh'.
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