Arabic vocabulary
عَجُوزُold
How to say “old” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
قَالَتْ يَا وَيْلَتَا أَأَلِدُ وَأَنَا عَجُوزُ
She said, "Alas, will I give birth while I am old?"
عَجُوزُ — old. A predicate describing her, completing the 'while I am old' frame. Arabic needs no 'am': placing this descriptive word after the pronoun is itself the statement, with the linking verb simply understood.
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