Arabic vocabulary
أَثْمَانِ is how you say “prices” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَأَخَذَ كُتُبَهُ، وَبَاعَهَا بِأَبْخَسِ الأَثْمَانِ
So he took his books and sold them at the lowest prices.
الأَثْمَانِ — the prices. This definite plural noun is the owning second half of the 'cheapest of ...' pairing, so it sits in the 'of' (genitive) form. It names the field the superlative ranks within. Its 'the' makes the whole price phrase definite, completing 'the lowest of the prices'.
From: Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow →OpenArabic teaches words like أَثْمَانِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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