Arabic vocabulary
شَاحِبٌ is how you say “pale” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَلَمَّا قَفَلُوا قَالَ سَلَمَةُ رَأَنِي رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ شَاحِبًا
When they had gone, Salamah said, "The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, saw me pale."
شَاحِبًا — pale. A describing word in the state-ending, telling the condition the speaker was in when seen: pale. This ending marks it as a side-circumstance attached to the action, so it answers 'in what state' rather than naming a separate thing.
From: The Martyr's Reward →OpenArabic teaches words like شَاحِبٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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