كتاب book in Arabic
كتاب is how you say “book” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
The audio uses AI voices.
Example sentence
ووسمت كتابي ب ذمّ الْهَوَى لِذَلِكَ الْمَعْنَى
And I titled my book 'The Condemnation of Desires' for this reason.
كِتَابِي my book
The possessor is clipped onto the end of the noun rather than standing in front of it: Arabic builds 'my book' as a single word, the owner riding on the thing owned. A noun carrying a possessor like this is already definite, so it takes no separate 'the'.
The English is machine-translated.
Practise this word in the app
One tap gives you the meaning, a grammar note and audio.
Add the words you don’t know. Practise them with spaced repetition.
Free. No ads. No subscription.
An account is needed in the app.
More example sentences
وأمثال ذَلِك مِمَّا اسْتعْمل فِيهِ لفظ الْكَلِمَة من الْكتاب وَالسّنة بل وَسَائِر كَلَام الْعَرَب فَإِنَّمَا يُرَاد بِهِ الْجُمْلَة التَّامَّة
And the likes of that from the usage of the term (the word) in the Book and the Sunnah, as well as the rest of Arab speech, for it indeed means the complete sentence.
الْكِتَابِ the Book
Genitive after 'min' — 'the Book', the Quran. The first source.
اجْتنب من يعادي أهل الْكتاب وَالسّنة لِئَلَّا يعديك خسرانه
Avoid those who oppose the people of the Book and the Sunnah, lest their loss infect you.
الكِتَابِ the Book
'The Book', the owner completing 'the people of the Book', genitive, definite — here the Quran. The folk of revelation.