Arabic vocabulary
مَنُوَال is how you say “curtain” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فحاكت ثوب نسجها على منوال السّتْر
And it wove its web as a covering curtain.
مَنُوَالِ — a curtain. A noun 'loom / pattern', first term of an 'of' pairing — 'on the loom of concealment' — genitive after 'upon'. It owns the noun that follows; the idiom 'on the loom of X' means 'in the manner of X'.
From: The Night of the Migration →OpenArabic teaches words like مَنُوَال through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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