Arabic vocabulary
How to say “backs of” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَانْطَلَقْتُ حَتَّى دَخَلْتُ بَيْنَ ظُهُورِ الْقَوْمِ
So I set out and entered between the backs of the people.
ظهراني — backs of. This noun is governed by 'among' and heads an 'X of Y' pair completed by the next word, so it owns 'the people' and gives 'the midst of the people'. It carries the genitive ending the preposition forces. The following definite noun names whose midst.
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