Arabic vocabulary
أَنْعَامٌ is how you say “cattle” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
بل يتركهم هملًا بمنزلة الأنعام السائمة
Rather, leaving them to wander like grazing cattle.
الْأَنْعَامِ — cattle. This noun sits as the second member after 'in the position of', taking the genitive ending that such possessive chains require. Its leading 'al-' makes it definite, and it is what the comparison is being drawn to.
From: False Prophets →وَالْأَنْعَامُ وَهِيَ مُعْجِبَةٌ لِلْمَالِكِ وَالنُّظَّارِ،
And the livestock, and they are causing admiration for the owner and the onlookers,
وَالْأَنْعَامُ — and the livestock. The connector wa- ('and') fused onto a noun carrying al- ('the'), resuming the catalogue — 'and the livestock'. The wa- coordinates it with the earlier worldly things, and the article marks the collective as specific. It heads a small clause described by the words that follow.
From: This World Is Short →OpenArabic teaches words like أَنْعَامٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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