Arabic vocabulary
تَمْرِthe dates
How to say “the dates” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
أَسْمَعْتُمْ عُيُوبَ الْعَاجِلَةِ أَيَشْتَرِي زَنَابِيرَ التَّمْرِ مُشْتَارٌ،
Have you heard the faults of the transient world? Who would buy dates riddled with wasps?
اَلْتَّمْرِ — the dates. Carries al- ('the') and completes 'wasps of the dates' as the owner of the chain, so it takes the genitive ending. It names what the wasps infest — the dates. The definiteness treats the dates as the specific, known produce being ruined.
From: This World Is Short →
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