Arabic vocabulary
How to say “Hell” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
يَكُونُ ثُبُوتُ قَدَمِهِ عَلَى الْصِّرَاطِ الْمَنْصُوبِ عَلَى مَتْنِ جَهَنَّمِ،
His footing will be firm on the bridge erected over the body of Hell.
جَهَنَّمِ — Hell. A proper noun ('Hell') closing the 'of' pairing as the owner ('the body of Hell'), and so in the genitive ending. Being a name it is already definite and lends that definiteness to the whole phrase. It needs no al-.
From: The Bridge to Paradise →OpenArabic teaches words like جَهَنَّمِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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