Arabic vocabulary
الْمِصْبَاحِthe lamp in Arabic
الْمِصْبَاحِ is how you say “the lamp” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَحَكَى غَيْرُ الْمَأْمُونِ أَنَّ السَّجَّانُ فَطِنَ لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ بِالْمِصْبَاحِ فِي تَسْخِينِ الْمَاءِ،
And another narrator, not al-Ma'mun, reported that the jailer noticed his staying close by the lamp in heating the water.
بِالْمِصْبَاحِ — by the lamp. The bi- here means 'by / using', naming the means, and it fuses with a noun carrying al- 'the'. The preposition forces that noun into the genitive form. It specifies what al-Fadl was making use of: the lamp.
From: A Son Protecting His Father →
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