Arabic vocabulary
صَبِيٍّboy
How to say “boy” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فصوتت ميزان شهوات زليخا بذلك الصبي،
The scales of Zuleikha's desires tipped because of that boy.
ٱلصَّبِيِّ — the boy. The al- makes this definite, 'the boy'. It sits after the preposition 'because of', and as the noun that preposition governs it carries the post-preposition -i ending.
From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →
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