تنّورة (tannuura) — "skirt" in Modern Standard Arabic
تنّورة
tannuura
skirt
- Topic
- clothing
- Seen in
- 2 of our stories
"skirt" in the other dialects
تنّورة in a sentence
Every sentence below is taken from a story on Parallel Arabic, so you can see how the word behaves in real context rather than in isolation.
فتح الحقيبة ووجد تنورة صغيرة
fataha alhaqiba wawajada tannoura saghira
He opened the bag and found a small skirt.
from Shopping for Clothes
ثم اشارت الحفيدة الى تنورة عصرية وقالت هذه تنورة زرقاء صغيرة من القطن
Thumma ashārat al-ḥafīdatu ilā tannūratin ʿaṣrīyatin wa-qālat "Hādhihi tannūratun zarqāʾu ṣaghīratun mina al-quṭni."
Then the granddaughter pointed to a modern skirt and said, "This is a small blue skirt made of cotton."
More clothing vocabulary
Practice clothing
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