Arabic vocabulary
How to say “hand” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَيُطْعِمُهَا بِيَدِهِ،
and he feeds her with his hand,
بِيَدِهِ — with his hand. This packs the preposition bi- ('with, by means of') plus a noun and the attached '-hi' (his), giving 'with his hand'. Here bi- is the instrument-marker, naming what he fed her by. The '-hi' ties the hand to the son and makes the noun definite, underscoring the personal tenderness of the act.
From: Mothers and the Companions →فَأَخَذَ الْقَدَحَ فَوَضَعَهُ عَلَى يَدِهِ فَنَظَرَ إِلَيَّ فَتَبَسَّمَ
Then he took the cup, placed it on his hand, looked at me, and smiled.
يَدِهِ — his hand. A noun 'hand' with 'his' attached at the end, one word for 'his hand', governed by the 'on' before it; the 'his' refers to the Prophet. The attached pronoun shows possession with no separate 'his'. It is the surface the cup rests on.
From: Generosity to the Poor →OpenArabic teaches words like يَدِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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