Arabic vocabulary
ظِلِّshade in Arabic
ظِلِّ is how you say “shade” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَجَعَلْتُ أَمْشِيُ فِي ظِلِّ الْقَمَرِ
So I began to walk in the moon's shade.
ظِلِّ — shade. A noun, 'shade', sitting in the genitive after the preposition and also heading a possessive pairing, 'shade of'. It is incomplete on its own and leans on the following 'moon' to say whose shade; the doubled final consonant is part of the word's fixed shape.
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