Arabic vocabulary
How to say “the oven” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَخَرَجَتْ إِلَى التَّنُّورِ فَإِذَا هِيَ كَالْرَّغِيفِ الْمَحْرُوقِ
She went out to the oven, and behold, she was like a burnt loaf.
التَّنُّورِ — the oven. A definite noun, marked by al-, after the 'to' preposition and so in the genitive. The al- makes it the known oven of the scene. It is the destination the going-out was aimed at, completing the motion-phrase.
From: A Night of Reckoning →OpenArabic teaches words like التَّنُّورِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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