Arabic vocabulary
شَجَرٍ is how you say “tree” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
أَحَدُهُمَا أَنْ يَجْعَلَ لِلَّهِ نِدًّا وَيَعْبُدَ غَيْرَهُ مِنْ حَجَرٍ أَوْ شَجَرٍ أَوْ شَمْسٍ أَوْ قَمَرٍ أَوْ نَبِيٍّ أَوْ شَيْخٍ أَوْ نَجْمٍ أَوْ مَلَكٍ أَوْ غَيْرِ ذَلِكَ،
One of them is to set up for Allah an equal and worship something else, such as a stone, tree, sun, moon, prophet, saint, star, angel, or anything else.
شَجَرٍ — a tree. A bare indefinite noun, 'a tree', the next example, in the (genitive) form to match its fellows under the governing 'of'.
From: The Sin of Idolatry →OpenArabic teaches words like شَجَرٍ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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