Arabic vocabulary
صِّيَامِthe fasting
How to say “the fasting” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَعَلَى مَشَقَّةِ الصِّيَامِ
And on the hardship of fasting.
الصِّيَامِ — the fasting. The definite 'the fasting' closing the 'of' pairing as the owner, giving 'the hardship of fasting' its definiteness. Its al- ('the') blends in sound into the following consonant, a normal assimilation not shown in spelling. It carries the genitive ending as the owner term.
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