Arabic vocabulary
How to say “day” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
ابدأ نهارك بمسحٍ داخلي سريع ما الذي يحركني الآن، خوف أم رجاء أم عادة عمياء
Start your day with a quick inner scan: what drives me now – fear, hope, or blind habit?
نَهَارَكَ — your day. 'nahar' = 'daytime'; '-ka' = 'your', so 'your day'.
From: On Sincerity →اجعل ليلك ميزانًا لنهارك ثلاث دقائق للمحاسبة، دقيقة للاستغفار، ودقيقة لوعدٍ واضح تتعامل معه كعهد
Make your night a scale for your day: three minutes for accountability, one minute for seeking forgiveness, and one minute for a clear promise you treat as a covenant.
لِنَهَارِكَ — for your day. 'li-' = 'for'; 'nahar' = 'daytime'; '-ka' = 'your', so 'for your day'.
From: On Sincerity →وَمَنْ أَحْسَنَ فِي لَيْلِهِ، كُوفِئَ فِي نَهَارِهِ، وَمَنْ أَحْسَنَ فِي نَهَارِهِ، كُوفِئَ فِي لَيْلِهِ
Whoever does good in his night is rewarded in his day, and whoever does good in his day is rewarded in his night.
نَهَارِهِ — his day. A noun with a 'his' suffix, holding both 'day' and its owner in one word. It takes the 'of'-style ending because the preposition before it governs it. The 'his' points to the same doer, so the reward lands in his day, opposite the night in which he did good.
From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →وَمَنْ أَحْسَنَ فِي لَيْلِهِ، كُوفِئَ فِي نَهَارِهِ، وَمَنْ أَحْسَنَ فِي نَهَارِهِ، كُوفِئَ فِي لَيْلِهِ
Whoever does good in his night is rewarded in his day, and whoever does good in his day is rewarded in his night.
نَهَارِهِ — his day. A noun with a 'his' suffix, 'his day', in the 'of'-style ending under the preposition before it. It marks when the good is done in this half. Set against the coming 'in his night', it completes the crossed pattern of the proverb.
From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →OpenArabic teaches words like نَهَارٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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