Arabic vocabulary
خِبَاءtent in Arabic
خِبَاء is how you say “tent” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فمنا من يصلح خباءه،
Some of us were fixing our tents.
خِبَاءَهُ — their tents. This is 'tent' with 'his' attached, 'his tent', the suffix marking the possessor and pointing back to the one mending. It stands as the object of the mending verb, so its ending reflects being acted upon; the possessor is fused onto the noun's end.
From: A Prophet Warns His People →
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