Arabic vocabulary
شَرْقِيِّeastern
How to say “eastern” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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