Arabic vocabulary
طَعَامُ is how you say “food” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَعَلَيْهَا طَعَامُهُ وَشَرَابُهُ
And on it were his food and his drink.
طَعَامُهُ — his food. This noun is fused with an attached masculine pronoun 'his', so one word means 'his food'. In this 'on it were X and Y' frame it is the thing said to be on the mount, and the suffix names its owner, the traveller.
From: The Joy of Repentance →OpenArabic teaches words like طَعَامُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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