Arabic vocabulary
مِينَاء is how you say “port” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَمَا طلع الْفجْر الا وَهِي بالمينا
The dawn had not broken before they were at the port.
بِالْمِينَاءِ — at the port. 'Bi-' (at / in) fused with 'the harbor', genitive — 'at the port'. The 'bi-' marks the place reached: dawn barely broke and they were already docked.
From: Stages of the Seeker →OpenArabic teaches words like مِينَاء through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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