Arabic vocabulary
How to say “the afternoon” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فِي نَحْرِ ٱلظَّهِيرَةِ
In the middle of the afternoon.
ٱلظَّهِيرَةِ — the afternoon. The owning, second noun of the 'peak of ...' pair, made specific by al- and taking the genitive that closes such a chain. It names what the peak belongs to, the noon-heat, fixing the time as the dead middle of the day.
From: The Secret Migration →OpenArabic teaches words like ٱلظَّهِيرَة through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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