Arabic vocabulary
رُكْنُpillar in Arabic
رُكْنُ is how you say “pillar” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ لَهُ الرُّكْنُ أَيْنَ أَنْتَ مِنْ اِبْنِ الْجَوْزِيِ؟
The Pillar said to him, "Where do you stand regarding the son of al-Jawzi?"
الرُّكْنُ — the Pillar. A definite noun 'the Pillar', a title/nickname standing as the subject (speaker) and placed after the verb in Arabic's normal verb-first order. Its 'the' marks the specific man so dubbed.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →
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