Arabic vocabulary
نَجَاسَةٌ is how you say “impurity” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وإذا وقعَت نجاسةٌ بعد التيمم لم يَبطل على المذهب،
If impurity occurs after tayammum, it does not invalidate it according to the school of thought.
نَجَاسَةٌ — impurity. 'an impurity,' indefinite (the -un), the doer of 'fell' — ritual filth landing on the person. Feminine, which is why the verb took the feminine ending. The ruling on this follows.
From: The Practice of Earth Cleansing →OpenArabic teaches words like نَجَاسَةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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