Arabic vocabulary
How to say “poetry” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَكَلاَمًا مَا هُوَ بِالشِّعْرِ
And speech that is not poetry.
بِالشِّعْرِ — in poetry. The bi- preposition fused to a noun keeping its 'the', a structure that with the negation forms the set 'is not X' pattern. The bi- here is not a literal 'with'; it strengthens the denial that the speech is poetry.
From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →OpenArabic teaches words like شِعْرٍ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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