Arabic vocabulary
مَوْلًىmaster
How to say “master” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَكَانَ مَوْلَاهُ يلْعَب بالنرد يقامر عَلَيْهِ
And his master played dice, gambling on it
مَوْلَاهُ — his master. 'mawla' = 'master, patron'; '-hu' = 'his', so 'his master'.
From: Luqman's Response to Injustice →كان أبوه مولى لرجل من الأنصار،
His father was a freedman of a man from the Ansar.
مَوْلًى — a freedman. This noun is the predicate of 'was', telling what the father was, so it takes the object form the copula assigns. Its ending marks it indefinite, 'a freedman'.
From: Raised in the Prophet’s Household →
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