Arabic vocabulary
الدِّرَةَthe pearl
How to say “the pearl” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
أَحْمِلُ أُمِّي وَهِيَ الحَمَّالَةُ تُرْضِعُنِي الدِّرَةَ وَالعُلَالَةَ
I carry my mother, and she, the carrier, nurses me the pearl and the little treasure.
الدِّرَةَ — the pearl. This noun carries al- 'the' and is the object of 'nurses', marked by the object-style -a ending. It is used figuratively in the verse for the milk she gave. The definiteness and object case together flag it as the specific thing she fed him.
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