Arabic vocabulary
غَارِcave
How to say “cave” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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