Arabic vocabulary
كِتَابَ is how you say “book” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَكَانَ يَكْتُبُ الْكِتَابَ الْعَرَبِيَّ
He was writing the book in Arabic.
الْكِتَابَ — the book. This noun carries the 'the' marker as the specific writing, and its accusative ending marks it as the object, what he wrote. So it is the direct object of the writing verb.
From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →OpenArabic teaches words like كِتَابَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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