Arabic vocabulary
قَلٌّ is how you say “little” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَإِنْ كَانَ فِي الْمَالِ قَلٌّ،
So if there is little wealth,
قَلٌّ — little. An indefinite noun naming the scarcity, serving as the thing-that-exists in the 'if there is...' frame set up earlier. It carries the plain subject-form ending, marking it as what the conditional asserts to be present.
From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →OpenArabic teaches words like قَلٌّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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