Arabic vocabulary
أَسِيرُ is how you say “captive” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَا أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ مَا فَعَلَ أَسِيرُكَ الْبَارِحَةَ
The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "O Abu Hurayrah, what did your captive do last night?"
أَسِيرُكَ — your captive. A noun with an attached 'your' pronoun and no separate 'the', the possessor making it definite, and a nominative ending marking it as the subject of 'did'. The 'your' ties the captive to Abu Hurayra, the one being questioned.
From: The Verse of the Throne →OpenArabic teaches words like أَسِيرُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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