Arabic vocabulary
How to say “wear” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
ترى الناس في يوم العيد يلبسون الجديد، ويتطيبون، ويخرجون إلى المصلى فرحين مسرورين
You see people on the day of Eid wearing new clothes, perfuming themselves, and going out to the prayer area happy and joyful.
يَلْبَسُونَ — they wear. A present-tense verb meaning 'they wear', with the plural 'they' built into its ending. The plural doer is encoded by the verb's ending, so no separate 'they' is written; this clause describes what the people do.
From: Celebration and the Final Hour →ولو أن إنسانًا جاع فلم يأكل، أو احتاج فلم يسأل، أو عري فلم يلبس، فمات دخل النار،
And if a person goes hungry and does not eat, or is in need and does not ask, or is unclothed and does not dress, and dies, he enters the Fire,
يَلْبَسْ — he dresses. This present-tense verb sits in its cut-off (jussive) shape because of the preceding past-negator, with its 'he' subject built in, together meaning 'he did not clothe himself'. The mood change carries the negated past.
From: Trust in God →OpenArabic teaches words like يَلْبَس through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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