Arabic vocabulary
المَرَاوِزُwaterwheels in Arabic
المَرَاوِزُ is how you say “waterwheels” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَأَقْلَعَ أَشْجَارًا بُسْتَانِهَا، وَتَعَطَّلَتْ المَرَاوِزُ،
And someone uprooted the trees of her orchard, and the waterwheels stopped working.
المروز — the waterwheels. The definite subject of 'stopped working', placed after its verb. With 'al-' it names the specific waterwheels; because the verb came first and treats this as a single unit, the agreement on the verb was feminine-singular.
From: On Birth and Its Timing →
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