Arabic vocabulary
الصَّخْرَthe rock in Arabic
الصَّخْرَ is how you say “the rock” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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.
From: Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow →
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