Arabic vocabulary
الْعُرَّةِthorny thicket
How to say “thorny thicket” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كَمَا يَجْنُبُ الرَّاعِيُ الشَّفِيقُ إِبْلَهُ عَنْ مُبَارَكِ الْعُرَّةِ
Just as the compassionate shepherd spares his camels from the blessed thorny thicket.
العُرّة — thorny thicket. This is a noun naming a hazardous thorny place, carrying 'the' and sitting in the governed form because the preposition governs the whole phrase. It is the danger the camels are steered away from. Its definiteness marks it as a specific known peril in the image.
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