Arabic vocabulary
شَمْسٌsun
How to say “sun” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
ياعجبا من يُغطي عين ضوء الشَّمْس فِي نصف النَّهَار
How amazing is one who covers the eye of the sun's light at midday!
الشَّمْسِ — the sun. As the last link of the chain, this noun carries the genitive ending and supplies the definiteness for the whole 'eye-of-the-light-of-the-sun' string; the earlier nouns borrowed their 'the' from it.
From: The Prophet's Refuge in the Cave →
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