Arabic vocabulary
بُصْرَى is how you say “Busra” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
ثم قال والذي نفسي بيده إن ما بين المصراعين من مصاريع الجنة كما بين مكة وهجر، أو كما بين مكة وبصرى
Then he said: "By the One in whose hand is my soul, indeed, the distance between the two panels of the gates of Paradise is as between Mecca and Hajar, or as between Mecca and Busra."
وَبُصْرَى — and Busra. 'wa-' joins the second point of this 'between' pair: 'between Mecca and Busra'; it links the two endpoints the spanning preposition needs. A plain coordinating link.
From: The Prophet's Intercession →OpenArabic teaches words like بُصْرَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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