Arabic vocabulary
How to say “type” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
فقال ثم صار المتأخرون بعد ذلك قد يتناظرون في أنواع التأويل والقياس بما يؤثر في ظن بعض الناس،
and he said: "Then later generations debated forms of interpretation and analogy that influence the thinking of some,
أَنْوَاعِ — forms. 'kinds of', genitive after 'fi', head of an 'of' pairing with 'interpretation'; broken plural.
From: Rules of Scholarly Debate →وَالْقَضَاء نَوْعَانِ إِمَّا مصائب وَإِمَّا معائب
The decree is of two types: either calamities or faults.
نَوْعَانِ — two types. The predicate, 'two kinds', in the dual with its '-ani' ending, the nominative shape of the dual. Arabic marks 'exactly two' on the noun itself, so one word says 'two sorts'.
From: Accepting God's Decree →OpenArabic teaches words like نوع through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
Get the app