Arabic vocabulary
صَيْدُ is how you say “capture” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَكَانَ مِنْهَا كِتَابَتُهُ صَيْدُ الْخَاطِرِ،
Among them was his book, The Capture of Thought,
صَيْدُ — capture. This noun heads an 'of' pairing forming a book title, 'the Capture of...': it leans on the following noun and takes definiteness from it. Standing as the predicate of the clause it appears in the nominative. The bare juxtaposition builds the title.
From: A Life of Reading and Writing →OpenArabic teaches words like صَيْدُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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