Arabic vocabulary
بَوَّابٌdoorkeeper
How to say “doorkeeper” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَعَلَى بَابِهَا بَوَّابٌ،
And at its door was a doorkeeper.
بَوَّابٌ — a doorkeeper. An indefinite noun 'a doorkeeper', the delayed subject of the existential 'there was', placed after its location in Arabic's normal order for such 'there is' sentences. Its intensive pattern marks a habitual-role agent, and its indefinite subject ending suits the 'a certain doorkeeper existed' sense.
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