Arabic vocabulary
How to say “in the lane of” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَأَفْرَدْتُ لِلشَّيْخِ دَارًا بِدَرْبِ الدِّيْوَانِ،
And I set aside a house for the sheikh on Diwan Lane.
بِدَرْبِ — in the lane of. A preposition 'in/on' fused to a noun 'lane', which is itself the first half of an 'of' pair — 'in the lane of …' — governing the following name into the genitive. The whole preposition-plus-noun is one written word.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →OpenArabic teaches words like بِدَرْبِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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