Arabic vocabulary
How to say “people” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَتَمَيَّزَ لِكُلِّ قَوْمٍ حَاصِلُهُمْ الَّذِي حَصَّلُوهُ،
And for every people, the outcome they had attained was made clear,
قَوْمٍ — people. An indefinite noun, 'a people / a group', completing the 'every X' phrase and so genitive after 'every'. Left indefinite, it ranges over each group in turn. It also heads, with the following noun, the idea of each people's own attained result.
From: Ignoring God's Guidance →إِنْ لَا أُقِيمُ بَيْنَ أَظْهَرِ قَوْمٍ
If I am not among the foremost of a people.
قَوْمٍ — of a people. An indefinite noun, 'a people', and the owner completing the 'of' pairing, so it sits in the genitive. Placed directly after the head-noun with no separate 'of', it finishes the phrase 'the midst of a people'.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →فَلَا يُقِيمُ بَيْنَ أَظْهَرِ قَوْمٍ
So he would not remain among the most prominent of the people.
قَوْمٍ — people. An indefinite noun, 'a people', completing the 'of' pairing and so in the genitive. Placed directly after the head with no separate 'of', it finishes 'the midst of a people'.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like قَوْمٍ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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