Arabic vocabulary
How to say “dirt” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَقُلْتُ إِنْفَضِّ الضَّرْعَ مِنَ التُّرَابِ وَالشَّعْرِ وَالْقِذَى
I said, "Shake the udder free of dirt, hair, and grit."
التُّرَابِ — the dirt. A definite noun, the dirt, governed by the 'from' before it, so it sits in the 'of'-style ending; its 'al-' (the) was carried over in the previous chunk. It is the first of the things to be cleared away. The preposition is what assigns it that ending.
From: A Night with the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like تُّرَابِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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