Arabic vocabulary
غَارِcave in Arabic
غَارِ is how you say “cave” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَكَانَ يَلْحْقُ بِغَارِ حِرَاءِ
So he would go to the Cave of Hira.
بِغَارِ — to the cave. A preposition fused onto the noun for 'cave', forcing it into the genitive and marking it as the destination he kept reaching. The prefix supplies the 'to/at' relationship that the verb of movement needs.
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