A new word or phrase from the Hans Wehr dictionary, every Wednesday. بأم العين bi-u. al-‘ain or بأم عينه with one’s own eyes Root: ء-م-م Page: 31* Example: “!كَيْفَ تُنْكِرُها وَهُوَ شاهَدَها بِأُمِّ عَيْنِه؟” Translation: “how could she deny it when he saw it with his own eyes?!” Revise all of the vocab from the…
أَجْوَف root: ج-و-ف / adjective / definition: hollow Two weeks ago, in one of our Academic Arabic posts, we looked at the form I, hollow verb قامَ which—when followed by بِـ—means “to carry out or undertake”. But قام holds many meanings. And its meaning in any given place is dictated by the semantic and syntactic…
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