دواء medicine in Arabic
دواء is how you say “medicine” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
The audio uses AI voices.
Example sentence
ألم تر إلى المريض كيف يمتنع عن الطعام اللذيذ خوفًا من زيادة المرض، ويشرب الدواء المرّ رجاء للشفاء؟
Have you not seen how a sick person refrains from delicious food fearing an increase in illness, and drinks bitter medicine hoping for a cure?
الدَّوَاءَ medicine
The definite object of 'drinks', in the object form, its 'the' marking the medicine as a known thing. It is what the sick person takes despite its taste.
The English is machine-translated.
Practise this word in the app
One tap gives you the meaning, a grammar note and audio.
Add the words you don’t know. Practise them with spaced repetition.
Free. No ads. No subscription.
An account is needed in the app.
More example sentences
فقيل له ائت العطار واشتر له دواء
so he was told: 'Go to the herbalist and buy some medicine for it.'
دواء medicine
The thing to be bought, 'medicine', the object of 'buy', so it takes the object ending. It is left indefinite, some medicine, since none is yet specified.
فقال أعطني دواء للحمار
and said, 'Give me medicine for the donkey.'
دواء medicine
The thing requested, 'medicine', the object of 'give', so it takes the object ending. It is indefinite, some medicine, since the kind is unspecified.
فقال العطار خذ هذا الدواء واجعله في إحدى عينيه
The herbalist said, 'Take this medicine and put it in one of its eyes.'
الدواء medicine
The thing to be taken, 'the medicine', the object of 'take', so it takes the object ending. Its 'the' is required because it pairs with the demonstrative 'this', which only goes with a definite noun.
فأخذ جحا الدواء وذهب به إلى الحمار ووضعه في عينه،
Joha took the medicine and went to the donkey and put it in its eye,
الدواء the medicine
The thing taken, 'the medicine', the object of 'took', so it takes the object ending. Its 'the' marks the definite medicine just bought.
وقال له ألم أقل لك أعطني دواء للحمار؟
and said to him, 'Didn't I tell you to give me medicine for the donkey?'
دواء medicine
The thing requested, 'medicine', the object of 'give', so it takes the object ending. It is indefinite, some medicine, as before.