Arabic vocabulary
رَأْسُ is how you say “capital” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
واعلم أن كل لحظة من عمرك رأس مال لك،
And know that every moment of your life is capital for you,
رَأْسُ — is capital. This is the start of an 'of' pairing meaning 'head of capital', i.e. principal, where this first noun owns the relationship and the next noun completes it. As the predicate naming what each moment is, it stands in the subject-style case while the following noun takes the possessive ending.
From: While You Still Can →OpenArabic teaches words like رَأْسُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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