Arabic vocabulary

كِتَابُbook in Arabic

كِتَابُ is how you say “book” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

قَالَ رَحِمَهُ اللَّهُ عَنْ كِتَابِ الْفُنُونِ وَهَذَا الْكِتَابُ مِئَتَا مُجَلَّدٍ،
He, may God have mercy on him, said about the Book of the Arts: This book consists of two hundred volumes.
الْكِتَابُ — the book. A definite noun with al- ('the'), the subject the quotation comments on, paired with the demonstrative before it as 'this book'. It stands in the nominative as the topic of a verbless 'this book is...' statement. The following count is its predicate.
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