Arabic vocabulary

زَنَابِيرَwasps in Arabic

زَنَابِيرَ is how you say “wasps” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

أَسْمَعْتُمْ عُيُوبَ الْعَاجِلَةِ أَيَشْتَرِي زَنَابِيرَ التَّمْرِ مُشْتَارٌ،
Have you heard the faults of the transient world? Who would buy dates riddled with wasps?
زَنَابِيرَ — wasps. A noun 'wasps' that is the thing bought — the direct object of 'buys', so it takes the object ending — and it heads a possessive link with the next word ('wasps of ...'). As the owned head it drops its own 'the'. The plural is an irregular reshaped form. It pictures the spoiled goods no one would want.
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