Arabic vocabulary
الرِّيحِ is how you say “wind” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
مَحَّاهَا مَجَالُ الرِّيحِ بَعْدِهِمْ وَالْقَبْرُ
The sweep of the wind wiped it away after them, and the grave.
الرِّيحِ — of the wind. A definite noun carrying 'the', the owned half of 'the sweep of the wind'. That owner role puts it in the 'of...' ending and lends definiteness up to 'sweep'. So the wind is named as the agent whose sweeping erased the dwellings.
From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →OpenArabic teaches words like الرِّيحِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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