Arabic vocabulary
دَمْع is how you say “tear” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
كَمَا قَالَ النَّبِي إِن الله لَا يُؤَاخذ على دمع الْعين وَلَا حزن الْقلب وَلَكِن يُؤَاخذ على هَذَا وَيرْحَم
As the Prophet said, 'Indeed, Allah does not punish for the tear of the eye or the sadness of the heart, but He punishes for this — or shows mercy.'
دَمْعِ — tear of. First noun of an 'X of Y' pair, 'tear', in the owned head form, completed by 'the eye'. It heads 'the tear of the eye', the thing one is not held accountable for.
From: Patience in Hard Times →OpenArabic teaches words like دَمْع through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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