Arabic vocabulary
زَمْرَةٌ is how you say “tuft” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
يَعْنِي فِي قَطِيفَةٍ لَهُ فِيهَا رَمْزَةٌ أَوْ زَمْرَةٌ،
It means a small scrap of cloth that he has, in which there is a mark or a tuft.
زَمْرَةٌ — tuft. An indefinite noun standing as the second option after the choice-connector, parallel to the first. It carries no 'the', matching its partner as another unspecified possibility, and the connector frames it as the alternative.
From: A Night with the Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like زَمْرَةٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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