Arabic vocabulary
شَاةٌsheep in Arabic
شَاةٌ is how you say “sheep” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَأَخَذَ شَاةً
Then he took a sheep.
شَاةً — a sheep. An indefinite noun, a sheep, serving as the object of 'took', so it takes the object ending; its trailing '-an' marks it indefinite. That '-n' sound is Arabic's end-of-word way of saying 'a/an'. It names the animal taken.
From: A Night with the Prophet →
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