Arabic vocabulary
سَوَادُblackness
How to say “blackness” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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 →
Learn Arabic vocabulary in context
OpenArabic teaches words like سَوَادُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
Get the app