Arabic vocabulary
How to say “tear” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وقال عبد الواحد بن زيد لو رأيت الحسن، لقلت صب على هذا حزن الخلائق؛ من طول تلك الدمعة، وكثرة ذلك النشيج
Abdul-Wahid ibn Zaid said: If you saw Al-Hasan, you would say: 'The sorrow of all beings has been poured upon him,' because of the length of his weeping and the abundance of his lamentations.
الدَّمْعَةِ — weeping. This owner noun completes the 'length of that weeping' pairing, so it takes the governed ending, and the 'the' keeps it definite. The feminine ending marks the single-instance noun of weeping.
From: Grief of the Prophet's Grandson →OpenArabic teaches words like دَمْعَة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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