Arabic vocabulary
يَجْنُبُto spare
How to say “to spare” 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.
يَجْنُبُ — spares. This is a present-tense verb meaning to keep something to one side, with a singular 'he' subject built into its form. It heads its clause in verb-first order, with the shepherd named after. The present shape frames the action as the shepherd's customary care.
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