Arabic vocabulary
تَمْرdates in Arabic
تَمْر is how you say “dates” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فرمى بما كان معه من التمر،
He threw away what dates he had with him,
التَّمْرِ — the dates. A noun made definite by al- (the), so it names the dates as a known, specific category rather than just any dates. Following the partitive preposition before it, the pairing reads as 'of the dates', singling out that stock specifically.
From: A Handful of Dates and Paradise →
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