Arabic vocabulary
عَرَفَةَArafat
How to say “Arafat” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ مَا هَذِهِ لَكَأَنَّهَا نِيرَانُ عَرَفَةَ
Abu Sufyan said, "What are these? They look like the fires of Arafat."
عَرَفَةَ — Arafat. A place-name forming the owner half of 'the fires of Arafat'. As the owned, second noun of that 'X of Y' pairing it takes the genitive; the two nouns side by side, with no separate 'of', make a single phrase.
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