Arabic vocabulary
شَطِّriverbank
How to say “riverbank” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
بِإِزَاءِ دَارِهِ عَلَى الشَّطِّ بِالْجَانِبِ الشَّرْقِيِّ،
Opposite his house on the eastern side of the riverbank,
الشَّطِّ — the riverbank. A definite noun 'the riverbank' carrying al-, in the genitive because the 'on' before it governs it. The al- marks it as the specific bank already known in context. Its case ending is the visible tie to the preposition introducing the location.
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