Arabic vocabulary
بَغْدَادِ، is how you say “Baghdad” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَازْدَحَمَ عَلَيْهِ أَهْلُ بَغْدَادِ،
So the people of Baghdad crowded around him,
بَغْدَادِ — Baghdad. A place name serving as the owning second term of the possessive pairing 'people of Baghdad', which is why it sits in the genitive. It anchors who the crowding folk belong to. The pairing needs no separate 'of'; placing the two nouns side by side does the work.
From: Public Preaching →OpenArabic teaches words like بَغْدَادِ، through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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