Arabic vocabulary
تَحْتbeneath
How to say “beneath” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
يَا رَسُول الله لَو أَن أحدهم نظر إِلَى مَا تَحت قَدَمَيْهِ لَأَبْصَرنَا تَحت قَدَمَيْهِ
O Messenger of Allah, if one of them were to look beneath his feet, he would see us.
تَحْتَ — beneath. A place-adverb 'beneath', frozen in the accusative and governing the genitive — 'beneath his feet'. It builds 'under X' without a separate preposition.
From: The Night of the Migration →يَا رَسُول الله لَو أَن أحدهم نظر إِلَى مَا تَحت قَدَمَيْهِ لَأَبْصَرنَا تَحت قَدَمَيْهِ
O Messenger of Allah, if one of them were to look beneath his feet, he would see us.
تَحْتَ — beneath. A place-adverb 'beneath', frozen in the accusative, governing the genitive — repeated for emphasis, 'right beneath his feet'. The accusative again marks position.
From: The Night of the Migration →
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