Arabic vocabulary
مَبْدَأِ is how you say “start” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
كما أقسم في أول السورة على حال الانسان في مبدئه ومعاده
As He swore at the beginning of the surah about the state of man at the beginning and end.
مَبْدَئِهِ — his beginning. A noun with -hi (his) attached, so one word means 'his beginning'. The attached pronoun is the owner reaching back to man; the whole sits in the genitive after its preposition, marking the start of human existence.
From: Witnesses to God's Word →OpenArabic teaches words like مَبْدَأِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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