غَنَمٍ sheep in Arabic
غَنَمٍ is how you say “sheep” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَقُلْتُ لَهُ كُلُّ مَا تَرَى مِنَ أَجْرِكَ مِنَ الإِبِلِ وَالْبَقَرِ وَالْغَنَمِ وَالرَّقِيقِ
So I said to him, "Take all that you see of your pay from the camels, the cattle, the sheep, and the slaves."
وَالْغَنَمِ and the sheep
The connector 'wa-' adds another equal item to the running list, the same series-joining job as on the item before it. Its definite noun keeps the genitive ending that the opening 'of' set for the whole list.
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وَيَرْعَى عَلَيْهِمَا عَامِرُ بْنُ فُهَيْرَةَ مَوْلَى أَبِيِ بَكْرٍ مِنْحَةً مِنْ غَنَمٍ،
And Amir ibn Fuhayrah, the freedman of Abu Bakr, tends them with a gift of sheep.
غَنَمٍ sheep
A collective noun meaning livestock as a flock; it is grammatically singular even though it covers many animals. Sitting after the preposition, it takes the 'of' ending and names the source-material of the gift.