Arabic vocabulary
الْحَمْدِ is how you say “the praise” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
جمعة الدفتان من أول الحمد لله رب العالمين إلى آخر قل أعوذ برب الناس كلام الله
Friday of the Two Booklets: from the beginning, "Praise be to God, Lord of the worlds," to the end, "Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind." The Word of God.
الْحَمْدِ — the praise. This noun completes the possessive pairing opened by 'beginning', so the two read as 'the beginning of the praise'. As the owner-noun in that chain it keeps its own 'the', and Arabic sets the two nouns side by side with no separate word for 'of' linking them.
From: Honoring the Quran →OpenArabic teaches words like الْحَمْدِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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