Arabic vocabulary
قِمَاطٌswaddle
How to say “swaddle” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
ثم أخرج طفلًا يتنقل من خرق القماط إلى خز الخزوز،
Then He brought forth a child who moves from swaddling clothes to silk garments.
القِمَاطِ — swaddling clothes. The owning half of 'rags of swaddling-cloth', in the genitive because it completes the possessive pairing. The ending and order carry the 'of' with no separate word, specifying the kind of cloth the rags are.
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