Arabic vocabulary
How to say “milk” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَحَلَبَ فِي قَعْبٍ كُثْبَةً مِنْ لَبَنٍ،
Then he milked into a small container a lump of milk.
لَبَنٍ — milk. An indefinite noun, milk, governed by the partitive 'of' before it, so it sits in the 'of'-style ending; its trailing '-in' marks it indefinite. It names the substance the small amount came from. The preposition is what assigns it that ending.
From: A Night with the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like لَبَنٍ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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