Arabic vocabulary
صَبِيٍّboy in Arabic
صَبِيٍّ is how you say “boy” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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