Arabic vocabulary
How to say “the people” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
أَحَدُهُمَا الْعَبَّاسُ لِصَلَاةِ الظُّهْرِ، وَأَبِي بَكْرٍ يُصَلِّي بِالنَّاسِ،
One of them, Al-Abbas, performed the noon prayer, and Abu Bakr led the people in prayer.
بِالنَّاسِ — with the people. The bi- prefix is a preposition meaning leading 'with/over' a group; it governs the genitive on the attached definite noun and names whom he leads.
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