Arabic vocabulary
الصَّخْرَthe rock
How to say “the rock” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُبْكِيَ أَبْكَى الصَّخْرَ الأَصَمَ
And when he wanted to make people weep, he made even the unresponsive rock weep.
الصَّخْرُ — the rock. A definite noun, 'the rock', the thing made to weep. Despite a subject-like surface form, it is grammatically the object of the causing — the stone that is made to cry.
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