Arabic vocabulary
كَبِيرَانِtwo elderly
How to say “two elderly” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
اللَّهُمَّ كَانَ لِي أَبَوَانِ شَيْخَانِ كَبِيرَانِ،
O Allah, I had two elderly parents.
كَبِيرَانِ — two elderly. A further dual describing word, again matched to the dual 'parents' in number. Its doubled ending mirrors the noun's 'exactly two', stacking a second trait onto the pair so both are marked as advanced in age.
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