Arabic vocabulary
مَعْتَرَك is how you say “arena” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وأقر بالعجز فخلا لي المعترك،
And they acknowledged their inability, so the battlefield was left to me.
المَعْتَرَكُ — the arena. The al- makes this definite, 'the arena'. It is the subject of the verb 'was left/emptied', and as the doer of that verb it carries the -u ending that marks the subject in Arabic.
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