Arabic vocabulary
حِمَارdonkey
How to say “donkey” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كنت رديفا للنَّبِي على حمَار
I was a riding partner of the Prophet on a donkey
حِمَارٍ — a donkey. This noun is indefinite, with no 'the', and its ending shows the genitive case because the preceding preposition governs it. The indefinite ending signals 'a donkey', some unspecified one, rather than a particular known animal.
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