Arabic vocabulary
عَامَyear in Arabic
عَامَ is how you say “year” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
عَامَ الْفَتْحِ فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ قُرَيْشًا،
It was the Year of the Conquest, and that news reached the Quraysh.
عَامَ — year. A noun 'year' acting as the head of a possessive pairing with 'the Conquest' that follows: 'the year of the Conquest'. As the leading noun of such an 'X of Y' chain it carries no 'the' itself but is made definite by the noun behind it.
From: Conquest of Mecca Account →
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