Arabic vocabulary

كِيسٌbag in Arabic

كِيسٌ is how you say “bag” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فلما وصل وجد أن الدبس قد تسرب من الكيس،
When he arrived, he found that the molasses had leaked from the bag,
الْكِيسِ — the bag. Definite by al' and genitive by the preposition before it; the bag the leak came from.
From: Heedless Choices →
قال تقلب الكيس حتى يكون موضع التسرب من فوق، فلا يقع منه شيء
He said: Turn the bag so that the leaking spot is on top, and nothing will fall out of it.
الْكِيسَ — the bag. The -a ending marks this as the direct object of 'turn'; al' makes it 'the bag'.
From: Heedless Choices →

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