Arabic vocabulary

ذَاتُpossessing in Arabic

ذَاتُ is how you say “possessing” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

اِسْتَعْجَمْتُ دَارِ نِعَمٍ مَا تَكَلَّمْنَا وَالدَّارُ لَوْ كَلَّمَتْنَا ذَاتُ أَخْبَارٍ
I was astonished at the House of Blessings; we did not speak, and if the house spoke to us, it would have many stories.
ذَاتُ — possessing. A word meaning 'possessor of / endowed with', heading an ownership-style pairing with the noun after it. It functions as the predicate, 'it would be one possessing stories', and bonds to the following noun to say what the house is full of.
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