Arabic vocabulary
بُكَاءُ is how you say “weeping” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَجِئْتُ فَإِذَا الْبُكَاءُ مِنْ حُجُرِهَا كُلِّهَا،
I came, and suddenly there was weeping from all her rooms.
الْبُكَاءُ — the weeping. A definite noun with 'al-' standing as the subject of the verb-less surprise scene; with no 'is' word, the 'al-' marks the weeping as the thing that was suddenly there.
From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →OpenArabic teaches words like بُكَاءُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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