Arabic vocabulary
How to say “servant” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
حَتَّى يَدْخُلُ فِي النَّوْعِ الثَّانِيِّ مِنْ مَعْنَى الْعَبْدِ وَهُوَ الْعَبْدُ بِمَعْنَى الْعَابِدِ
until it enters the second sense of the word "slave", which is the sense of "worshipper".
الْعَبْدِ — the slave. A definite noun completing the pair, the word whose sense is discussed, in the genitive. Set beside 'meaning', it forms 'the sense of the slave' directly, without a separate 'of'.
From: What Worship Really Means →OpenArabic teaches words like عَبْدٍ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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