أَقْرَاصًاround cakes in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَأَخْرَجَتْ أَقْرَاصًا مِنْ شَعِيرٍ، ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَتْ خِمَارًا لَهَا

  She brought out rounds of barley bread, then she brought out a headscarf for herself.

  أَقْرَاصًا — round cakes. The food she brought -- round loaves -- object of the verb, its -an tail marking it an indefinite object. The word is an irregular ('broken') plural whose shape, not a tidy ending, carries the 'more than one' sense.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →