Arabic vocabulary
مَخَالِبِclaws in Arabic
مَخَالِبِ is how you say “claws” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَرَأَى الْجُرْذَ يَحْفُرُ بِمَخَالِبِ مِنْ حَدِيدٍ
Then he saw the rat digging with iron claws.
بِمَخَالِبِ — with claws. The 'bi-' fused at the front marks the instrument, 'with', naming what the digging is done by. It governs the plural noun after it into the 'of'-style ending, so 'digging with claws' is built here. It then heads forward into the 'of iron' phrase that specifies the claws.
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