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