Arabic vocabulary
How to say “the stars” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
وَكَانَ فِيهَا مِنَ الزَنْدَقَةِ وَعِبَادَةِ النُّجُومِ وَرَأْيُ الْأَوَائِلِ شَيْءٌ كَثِيرٌ،
And in it there was much heresy, star-worship, and many opinions of the early authorities.
النجوم — the stars. A definite plural noun 'the stars' completing the 'worship of …' pair as its owner, in the genitive as the second member and lending definiteness back to 'worship', together naming star-worship.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →OpenArabic teaches words like النُّجُومِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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