Arabic vocabulary
سَوَادُblackness in Arabic
سَوَادُ is how you say “blackness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
شَدِيدُ سَوَادِ الشَّعْرِ، لَا يُرَى عَلَيْهِ أَثَرُ السَّفَرِ، وَلَا يَعْرِفُهُ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ
His hair is intensely black; he shows no sign of travel, and none of us recognizes him.
سَوَادُ — blackness. A noun, 'blackness', owned by 'intense' before it, giving 'intense of blackness'; as the owner in the pairing it takes the genitive ending. It in turn heads a further 'of' pairing with 'the hair'.
From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →
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