Arabic vocabulary
مَالِحٌ is how you say “saltiness” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
والمالح يجفف البدن ويهزله
Saltiness dries the body and makes it emaciated.
الْمَالِحُ — saltiness. The al- makes this definite, 'the salty', and it opens the sentence as the topic, with the comment following. Here a quality-word stands in for the food type itself, and the definiteness frames it as the known thing being described.
From: The Art of Eating Well →OpenArabic teaches words like مَالِحٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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