Arabic vocabulary

أَمَةٌslave woman in Arabic

أَمَةٌ is how you say “slave woman” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

قَالَ أَنْ تَلِدَ الْأَمَةُ رَبَّتَهَا، وَأَنْ تَرَى الْحُفَاةَ الْعُرَاةَ الْعَالَةَ رِعَاءَ الشَّاءِ يَتَطَاوَلُونَ فِي الْبُنْيَانِ
He said, 'That a slave woman will give birth to her mistress, and that you will see barefoot, unclothed, destitute shepherds competing in erecting tall buildings.'
الْأَمَةُ — a slave woman. The doer of the giving-birth verb, a noun with al- ('the'), in the nominative as the subject. Placed after its verb in the normal verb-then-doer order, it identifies who acts. Its feminine sense agrees with the feminine verb before it.
From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →

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