Arabic vocabulary
الْخَانِthe inn
How to say “the inn” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
يَا أَيُّهَا السَّائِلُ عَنْ مَنْزِلِي نَزَلْتُ فِي الْخَانِ عَلَى نَفْسِي،
O questioner who asks about my dwelling, I stayed at the inn by myself.
الْخَانِ — the inn. The al- makes this definite, 'the' inn, the specific known lodging. Sitting after the preposition, it takes the genitive ending that prepositions impose, marking it as the place the speaker stayed in.
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