Arabic vocabulary
How to say “barley” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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