Arabic vocabulary
أَسِيرٌ is how you say “prisoner” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
قال جئت لهذا الأسير الذي في أيديكم
He said: I came for this prisoner who is in your hands.
الْأَسِيرِ — prisoner. al- = 'the'; asir means 'captive, prisoner' — it follows 'li-', so it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending.
From: Early Converts to Islam →فقال النبي ﷺ فقهوا أخاكم في دينه، وأقرئوه القرآن وأطلقوا له أسيره ففعلوا
Then the Prophet ﷺ said: Educate your brother in his religion, teach him the Quran, and release his captive, and they did so.
أَسِيرَهُ — his captive. asir means 'captive'; the ending '-hu' adds 'his' — 'his captive'; the object of 'release'.
From: Early Converts to Islam →OpenArabic teaches words like أَسِيرٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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