طْحين (thin) — "flour" in Levantine Arabic
طْحين
ʈɧīn
flour
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طْحين 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.
المطبخ تحول لحلبة معركة خلال ساعة واحدة، والطحين والبهارات انتشروا بكل مكان.
Il-matbakh tahawwal la-halbet ma'rake khilaal saa'a waaHda, w-it-taHHeen w-il-bahaaraat intasharu bi kol makaan.
The kitchen turned into a battleground within one hour; flour and spices spread everywhere.
فجأة، دخلت بنت صغيرة وعيونها مليانة خوف، وعطته كيس طحين كان مخبى تحت أنقاض بيت جيرانهم يلي تهجروا من زمان.
Faj'a, dakhalat bint saghira wa-uyouna malyana khawf, wa-atato kis tHin kan mkhabba taHt anqad bayt jiranhom yalli thajjarou min zaman.
Suddenly, a young girl entered with eyes full of fear, and gave him a bag of flour that was hidden under the ruins of their neighbors' house who were displaced long ago.
مسح أبو شادي إيديه من الطحين وقال ببطء: "أهلا يا ابني، المنقوشة بمية وخمسين ألف ليرة لبنانية، بس إنت معك مية ألف بس."
masah abu shadi ideh min el-tahin w-qal bi-bot': "ahlan ya ibni, el-manqousheh bi-miyyeh w-khamseen alef lirah libnaniyyeh, bas inteh maak miyyet alef bas."
Abu Shadi wiped his hands from the flour and said slowly: "Welcome my son, the manakish is for one hundred and fifty thousand Lebanese liras, but you only have one hundred thousand."
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