Arabic vocabulary
هَدَمَ is how you say “demolished” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وكم هدم قصرًا مشيدًا وكم زلزل أبياتا،
And how many fortified castles has He demolished, and how many homes has He shaken,
هَدَمَ — he demolished. A past-tense verb meaning 'demolished / tore down', with its 'he' subject built into the form and pointing back to Allah. It governs the object that follows, the castle, so it names the destroying act counted by the 'how many'.
From: Death and Decree →OpenArabic teaches words like هَدَمَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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