Arabic vocabulary
غُلاَمٌboy
How to say “boy” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَهُوَ غُلاَمٌ شَابٌّ لَقِنٌ ثَقِيفٌ،
He was a young boy, Laqin of Thaqif.
غُلاَمٌ — a boy. An indefinite noun 'a boy / youth' serving as the completer of the verbless 'he (was) ...' description; the tail -un marks it nominative and indefinite. It states what he was, opening a string of describing words about the young man.
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