Arabic vocabulary
أَبَتِ is how you say “father” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
قَالُوا يَا أَبَتِ كَيْفَ نَحْتَالُ
They said, "O father, how shall we devise a plan?"
أَبَتِ — father. A noun being called out under the address-word, here 'father'; its short ending is the special form a noun takes when paired with 'my' in direct address. It is the one being summoned, not a subject or object of any verb.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like أَبَتِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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