Arabic vocabulary
How to say “trunks” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَرَأَتْ أُمُّ ابْنِ صَيَّادٍ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ يَتَّقِي بِجُذُوعِ النَّخْلِ
Then the mother of Ibn Sayyad saw the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, while he was taking shelter by the trunks of the palm trees.
بِجُذُوعِ — by the trunks of. A preposition fused to a noun, where the preposition marks the means or nearness by which the action is done. It heads a 'X of Y' pairing with the following word and governs it into the genitive, framing the trunks as what he sheltered by.
From: A Night with the Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like جُذُوعِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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