Arabic vocabulary
حِمَارdonkey in Arabic
حِمَار is how you say “donkey” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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