Arabic vocabulary
الرَّاعِيُshepherd in Arabic
الرَّاعِيُ is how you say “shepherd” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
كَمَا يَجْنُبُ الرَّاعِيُ الشَّفِيقُ إِبْلَهُ عَنْ مُبَارَكِ الْعُرَّةِ
Just as the compassionate shepherd spares his camels from the blessed thorny thicket.
الرَّاعِيُ — the shepherd. This is a definite noun carrying 'the', the doer of the verb before it, sitting after its verb in the verb-first order. Its subject-form ending marks it as the one acting. It is the shepherd at the heart of this second simile.
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