Arabic vocabulary
أَصْدَافِ is how you say “shells of” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَأَفْرِغْ فِي أَصْدَافِ الْأَسْمَاعِ مِنْ أَلْفَاظِهِ دُرَرًا،
And he poured out pearls from his words into the shells of ears.
أَصْدَافِ — shells of. A noun 'shells', governed by the 'into' before it so it carries the genitive, and the head of a possessive pairing with 'the ears' that follows. It builds the metaphor 'the shells of ears', the vessels the word-pearls drop into.
From: Public Preaching →OpenArabic teaches words like أَصْدَافِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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