Arabic vocabulary
شَمْسٌsun in Arabic
شَمْسٌ is how you say “sun” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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