Arabic vocabulary
أَيَّامٌdays in Arabic
أَيَّامٌ is how you say “days” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
ابن آدم، إنما أنت أيام، كلما ذهب يوم ذهب بعضك
"Son of Adam, you are but days; whenever a day passes, a part of you goes."
أَيَّامٌ — days. This is the predicate of the verbless sentence, telling what you are. It stands in the subject-style case to match the subject 'you', and being a plural noun it carries the imagery that your life is just a stretch of counted days.
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