Arabic vocabulary
How to say “winter” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
ليؤكل في الصيف البارد، وفي الشتاء الحار إدخال طعام على طعام آخر رديء
Cold foods should be eaten in the summer, and hot foods in the winter; introducing food upon another food is bad.
الشِّتَاءِ — the winter. The al- makes this definite, 'the winter'. As the noun governed by the preposition 'in', it takes the -i ending Arabic assigns to objects of a preposition.
From: The Art of Eating Well →OpenArabic teaches words like شِتَاءٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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