Arabic vocabulary

حُفَاةٌbarefoot in Arabic

حُفَاةٌ is how you say “barefoot” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

قَالَ أَنْ تَلِدَ الْأَمَةُ رَبَّتَهَا، وَأَنْ تَرَى الْحُفَاةَ الْعُرَاةَ الْعَالَةَ رِعَاءَ الشَّاءِ يَتَطَاوَلُونَ فِي الْبُنْيَانِ
He said, 'That a slave woman will give birth to her mistress, and that you will see barefoot, unclothed, destitute shepherds competing in erecting tall buildings.'
الْحُفَاةَ — barefoot. The first object of 'you see', a noun with al- ('the') in the accusative as the thing observed. It opens a stacked string of descriptions of the same people. The accusative ending marks it, and the matching ones to follow, as what is seen.
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