Arabic vocabulary
أَلْوَانِ is how you say “the colors” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَالْحَرْثَ مُخْضَرًا وَمُصْفِرًا مُخْتَلِفًا الْأَلْوَانِ وَالْأَزْهَارِ،
and the cultivated land, green and yellow, varied in its colors and flowers.
الْأَلْوَانِ — the colors. Carries al- ('the') and is the genitive complement of 'varied' before it — the respect in which the land differs, namely its colors. The plural is an irregular reshaped form. The describing word's pull is what puts it in the genitive, completing 'varied in its colors'.
From: This World Is Short →OpenArabic teaches words like أَلْوَانِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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