Arabic vocabulary
رَقْدَة is how you say “slumber” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فالله يوفقك، ويبصرك رشدك، ويوقظك من رقدة الجهل والرياء
May Allah guide you, make you see your right path, and awaken you from the slumber of ignorance and hypocrisy.
رَقْدَةِ — the slumber of. This noun and the one after it form a possessive pair read as 'the slumber of ignorance': two nouns set side by side with no separate word for 'of', the first naming the thing and the second naming what it belongs to. The first noun also drops any 'the' of its own and leans on the following noun for its definiteness.
From: When Recitation Breeds Pride →OpenArabic teaches words like رَقْدَة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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