Arabic vocabulary
How to say “side” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
قَالَ إِجْلِسْنِي إِلَى جَنْبِهِ فَأَجْلَسَاهُ إِلَى جَنْبِ أَبِ بَكْرٍ
He said, "Seat me beside him," so they seated him beside Abu Bakr.
جَنْبِ — side. A noun, 'side', in the genitive after the preposition and also the front term of a 'side of' pairing with the name that follows. It both answers the preposition and heads the possessive chain.
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