Arabic vocabulary
How to say “skin” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَعَصَرَتْ أُمُّ سُلَيْمٍ عُكَّةً لَهَا فَأَدَمَتْهُ،
And Umm Sulaym squeezed a skin of clarified butter for her, and she seasoned it.
عُكَّةً — a skin. What she squeezed -- a skin/flask of fat -- object of the verb, its -an tail marking it an indefinite object. It is then said to be 'hers' by the phrase after it.
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