Arabic vocabulary
How to say “flashes” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَيَا عُظْمَ الْمُصِيبَةِ عِنْدَمَا يَتَبَيَّنُ بَوَارِقَ أَمَانِيهِ خُلَّبًا،
And how great is the calamity when the dazzling flashes of his hopes become clear and he is deceived.
بَوَارِقَ — flashes. A plural noun, 'flashes / gleams', the subject of 'becomes clear', picturing the bright but empty promise of his hopes. It heads, with the following noun, a possessive pair, the flashes OF his hopes, setting up the image of dazzling but hollow expectation.
From: Ignoring God's Guidance →OpenArabic teaches words like بَوَارِقَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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