Arabic vocabulary
How to say “two words” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
إذا ناظرتَهم لم تَلْق منهم سوى حَرْفَيْنِ لِمْ لِمْ لا نُسَلِّمْ
When you debate them, you find nothing from them but the two words, 'why, why, we do not concede.'
حَرْفَيْنِ — two words. 'two utterances' — the DUAL (the -ayn genitive ending), 'a mere two phrases'. Arabic folds 'exactly two' into the noun's ending.
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