Arabic vocabulary
بَحَرَ is how you say “drowned” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
ثم بنى لأهل الصلاح ذاتُ ألواحٍ وُدسرٍ فسلموا وغنموا وبحر الباقون كالجزر،
Then He built for the people of righteousness a vessel of planks and nails; they were saved and prospered, while the rest were submerged like the ebbing tide,
وَبَحَرَ — and drowned. The attached connector here pivots to a contrast, turning to the opposite fate. The verb is past-tense with its own subject, reporting the drowning that befell the others, set against the salvation of the first group.
From: Rain and God's Decree →OpenArabic teaches words like بَحَرَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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