Arabic vocabulary
الصِّبْيَانُthe boys
How to say “the boys” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كَمَا يَتَلاَعَبُ الصِّبْيَانُ بِالْكُرَةِ
Just as the boys play with the ball.
الصّبيان — the boys. A broken plural for 'boys', formed by reshaping the singular's internal pattern rather than adding an ending, and made definite by 'al-'. It is the subject of the playing-verb that came before it. Arabic builds many plurals this way, by recasting the word's shape.
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