Arabic vocabulary
مَعْبَر is how you say “passage” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
الحمد لله الذي جعل الدنيا على الحقيقة معبر اعتبار،
Praise be to Allah who made this world, in truth, a passage for reflection,
مَعْبَرَ — a passage. This is the front half of 'a passage of reflection', a possessive pairing, and the second object of 'made', so it carries the object ending. It is what the world was turned into; it draws its sense from the owner that follows.
From: Preferring the Hereafter →OpenArabic teaches words like مَعْبَر through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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