Arabic vocabulary
الْمَرْعَىthe pasture in Arabic
الْمَرْعَى is how you say “the pasture” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ لَقَدْ أَضَاقَ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ الْمَرْعَى،
He said, "Indeed, the pasture has become too narrow for him."
الْمَرْعَى — the pasture. The al- makes this definite, 'the' pasture, the specific known thing. Despite coming last, it is the doer of the 'grew narrow' verb earlier, so it serves as the delayed subject, the thing that narrowed.
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