Arabic vocabulary
How to say “cries” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
والأعجمي يصيح زنهار
And the foreigner cries, 'Zanahar' (Woe),
يَصِيحُ — he cries. A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject built into the form, describing the shouting as a vivid ongoing act rather than a single past event. It introduces the quoted cry that follows, much as the parallel verb did for the Arab.
From: Preferring the Hereafter →وَالْأَعْجَمِيُّ يَصِيحُ زَنَهَارَ وَالْبَنِينَ
And the non-Arab cries out an onomatopoeic cry, and the boys.
يَصِيحُ — he cries out. A present-tense verb 'cries out' carrying a third-person masculine 'he', matched to the parallel present used for the Arab earlier. Its built-in 'he' refers to the non-Arab just named. The present keeps the two reactions side by side as ongoing, typical behaviour.
From: This World Is Short →OpenArabic teaches words like يَصِيحُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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