Arabic vocabulary
How to say “unlettered” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وأصلي على رسوله الأمي العربي،
And I send blessings upon His messenger, the unlettered Arab.
ٱلْأُمِّيِّ — the unlettered. The al- makes this definite, 'the unlettered'. It is an adjective describing 'His messenger' and so agrees with that noun in being definite and in case, sharing its post-preposition -i ending.
From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →فَنَظَرَ إِلَيْهِ ابْنُ صَيَّادٍ فَقَالَ أَشْهَدُ أَنَّكَ رَسُولُ الأُمِّيِّينَ
Then Ibn Sayyad looked at him and said, "I testify that you are the Messenger of the Unlettered."
الأُمِّيِّينَ — the Unlettered. A definite plural noun, 'the unlettered ones', the owning half of the pairing before it, in the genitive; it completes 'Messenger of the unlettered' as a single titled phrase.
From: A Night with the Companions →OpenArabic teaches words like أُمِّيّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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