Arabic vocabulary
شَعِيرٍ is how you say “barley” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَأَخْرَجَتْ أَقْرَاصًا مِنْ شَعِيرٍ، ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَتْ خِمَارًا لَهَا
She brought out rounds of barley bread, then she brought out a headscarf for herself.
شَعِيرٍ — barley. The grain, 'barley', governed by 'of' and so in the genitive, its -in tail marking it indefinite -- barley as the stuff of the loaves. The case shows it is what the preposition governs.
From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →OpenArabic teaches words like شَعِيرٍ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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