Arabic vocabulary
أَنْعَامُ is how you say “livestock” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وَالْخَيْلُ الْمَوْسُومَةُ وَالْأَنْعَامُ وَالْحَرْثَ فَلِلشَّهَوَاتِ حِيْلَةٍ غِيَارٍ،
And the branded horses, the livestock, and the cultivated fields — desires have a deceitful device for substitution.
وَالْأَنْعَامُ — and the livestock. The connector wa- ('and') fused onto a noun with al- ('the'), adding the livestock to the list of attractions. The wa- coordinates this item with the horses before it. The definite article marks the collective as a known category of worldly wealth.
From: This World Is Short →فَاحْتَمَلَ أَنْعَامُهُمْ وَأَمْوَالُهُمْ
So it carried off their livestock and their possessions.
أَنْعَامُهُمْ — their livestock. A noun with -hum fixing 'their' to it, standing as the object of the carrying-off and so in the object-style ending. The 'their' points back to the people, marking the livestock as theirs.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like أَنْعَامُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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