Arabic vocabulary
شِمَالٌyour left in Arabic
شِمَالٌ is how you say “your left” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَأَنَا الْبَاطِنُ اِحْفَظْ يَقِينَكِ عَنْ شِمَالِكَ
And I am the Inner. Guard your certainty on your left.
شِمَالِكَ — your left. The noun 'left side' with a 'your' fused at its end. Governed by the preceding preposition, it carries the 'of' (genitive) ending, and the suffix marks the listener as owner. Here the suffix is the masculine 'your', a shift from the feminine forms used just before.
From: The Four Inner Guards →
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