عُكَّةًskin in Arabic

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →