Arabic vocabulary
أَثَرُ is how you say “sign” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
شَدِيدُ سَوَادِ الشَّعْرِ، لَا يُرَى عَلَيْهِ أَثَرُ السَّفَرِ، وَلَا يَعْرِفُهُ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ
His hair is intensely black; he shows no sign of travel, and none of us recognizes him.
أَثَرُ — sign. A noun, 'trace / sign', that is the delayed subject of the passive 'is seen'; its -u ending marks it as what is (not) seen. It heads an 'of' pairing with 'travel' that follows.
From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →OpenArabic teaches words like أَثَرُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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