Arabic vocabulary
شَرْقِيِّeastern in Arabic
شَرْقِيِّ is how you say “eastern” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
بِإِزَاءِ دَارِهِ عَلَى الشَّطِّ بِالْجَانِبِ الشَّرْقِيِّ،
Opposite his house on the eastern side of the riverbank,
الشَّرْقِيِّ — eastern. A relational adjective 'eastern' modifying 'the side'. It agrees with its noun in definiteness (carrying al-), gender, and the genitive case. Such -i adjectives turn a direction into a describing word, here narrowing the location to the east bank.
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