Arabic vocabulary
سَحَابٌ is how you say “clouds” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
الحمد لله الذي ساق سحاب الشهوة برعد هواء مرجوز،
Praise be to God, who drove the clouds of desire with the thunder of a turbulent wind.
سَحَابَ — clouds. This noun is the object of the verb, shown by its accusative ending, and it heads a possessive pairing, 'clouds of desire'. So it both receives the driving and opens the 'of' relationship completed by the next word.
From: God's Promise of New Life →الحمد لله الذي أرسل السحائب بالمطر،
Praise be to Allah who sent the clouds with rain,
السَّحَائِبَ — the clouds. This noun is the object of 'sent', shown by its accusative ending, which marks what receives the action. The 'the' makes it the specific clouds, the ones God dispatched with rain.
From: Rain and God's Decree →OpenArabic teaches words like سَحَابٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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