Arabic vocabulary
أَوْقِيَّةan ounce in Arabic
أَوْقِيَّة is how you say “an ounce” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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