كُثْبَةًlump

Example sentences

• فَحَلَبَ فِي قَعْبٍ كُثْبَةً مِنْ لَبَنٍ،

  Then he milked into a small container a lump of milk.

  كُثْبَةً — a lump. An indefinite noun, a small amount, serving as the object of 'milked', so it takes the object ending; its trailing '-an' marks it indefinite. It measures how much milk was drawn. The indefinite tail does the job of English 'a'.

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