Arabic vocabulary
How to say “the knocker” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَبَيْنَمَا أَنَا عِنْدَهُ جَالِسٌ إِذْ دَقَّ دَاقُ الْبَابِ
While I was sitting with him, there came a knock at the door.
دَاقُ — the knocker. A noun standing as the subject of the knocking, following its verb. It echoes the sound it names and is the head of a possessive pairing with the door after it, dropping its own 'the' before the owner.
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