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ثَوْبٌ garment in Arabic

ثَوْبٌ is how you say “garment” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

والثوب الجديد والخلق والتدريس،

and the new garment, the creation, and the teaching.

الثَّوْبُ the garment

A definite noun added to the running list of glorifiers, in the plain subject ending matching the earlier items. The 'the' marks it as known, standing parallel to the branches and twigs as another joint subject.

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More example sentences

ولبسوا الثوب النظيف وشموا الطيب وأمسكوا عن الحركات،

They would wear clean clothes, smell perfume, and refrain from movements.

الثَّوْبَ the clothes

The al- makes this definite, 'the garment'. It is the object of the verb 'wore' and carries the -a ending that marks the thing the action falls upon, with an adjective describing it to follow.

From The Art of Eating Well

وَيَغْسِلُ ثَوْبَهُ، وَيَطْبُخُ، وَيَسْتَقِيُ الْمَاءَ مِنَ الْبِئْرِ،

He washes his garment, cooks, and draws water from the well,

ثَوْبَهُ his garment

A noun with the pronoun -hu ('his') attached at the end. That attached possessor makes the garment definite and ties it to him, and it functions as the object of the washing. Arabic shows ownership by gluing the pronoun directly onto the noun rather than using a separate word like 'his'.

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