Arabic vocabulary
How to say “burdens” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَكَانَتْ أَحْمَالًا،
and they were burdens,
أَحْمَالًا، — burdens. A plural noun serving as what the books amounted to, the complement of the preceding 'were'. Its -an ending marks it indefinite, an unspecified mass of loads. The image is figurative: the books were so many they made up whole burdens.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →OpenArabic teaches words like أَحْمَال through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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