Arabic vocabulary
How to say “excess” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وكثرة الحامض تسرع الهرم
Excessive sourness accelerates aging.
كَثْرَةُ — excess. This noun, 'abundance, a lot of', heads a possessive pairing with the noun that follows and serves as the subject. Arabic expresses 'too much of X' by making 'abundance' the owner-noun and X the owned noun set right after it, with no word for 'of'.
From: The Art of Eating Well →OpenArabic teaches words like كَثْرَةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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