Arabic vocabulary
أَبَوَانِtwo parents in Arabic
أَبَوَانِ is how you say “two parents” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
اللَّهُمَّ كَانَ لِي أَبَوَانِ شَيْخَانِ كَبِيرَانِ،
O Allah, I had two elderly parents.
أَبَوَانِ — two parents. A noun in the dual, Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' form, naming a pair of parents. Where English needs a separate 'two', Arabic folds the count into the noun's ending, so the word itself carries 'a pair of' as the thing possessed.
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