Daily wordsPalavras de 2 de set. de 2026
Words English took from Arabic
You're halfway down a covered market on a Saturday morning, guessing at prices you can't quite read and filling a bag as you go.
Dez palavras em inglês para todos os dias: coffee, sugar, jar, cotton, saffron, apricot, amber, henna, hazard, tambourine. Cada uma com pronúncia e uma frase para dizer em voz alta.
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As dez palavras10 palavras, 10 frases
- 1coffee/ˈkɑːfi/Também se diz ˈkɔːfi.nounA hot dark drink made from ground roasted beans.
- 2sugar/ˈʃʊɡər/nounThe sweet white stuff added to food and drinks.Starts with a sh sound, not an s.
- 3jar/dʒɑːr/nounA container with a wide mouth and no handle, usually glass.
- 4cotton/ˈkɑːtən/Também se diz ˈkɔːtən.nounCloth woven from the fibers of the cotton plant.
- 5saffron/ˈsæfrən/nounDried orange-red threads from a crocus flower, used to flavor and color food.
- 6apricot/ˈeɪprəˌkɑːt/nounA small soft orange fruit with a stone in the middle, a bit like a little peach.First syllable rhymes with ape, and the stress sits there: AY-pruh-cot.
- 7amber/ˈæmbər/adjectiveHaving a warm brownish yellow color.
- 8henna/ˈhenə/verbTo color your hair with a reddish brown plant dye.
- 9hazard/ˈhæzərd/verbTo offer a guess you may well have wrong.
- 10tambourine/ˌtæmbərˈiːn/nounA small round drum with metal discs in the rim that jingle when you shake it.The stress lands on the last syllable: tam-buh-REEN.
As frases
- 1
Do they sell the coffee beans by weight here?
- 2
How much is the bag of brown sugar?
- 3
Could I have that big jar of honey please?
- 4
Are these market bags made of thick cotton?
- 5
Is the saffron cheaper at the next stall?
- 6
I'll take a bag of the dried apricot halves.
- 7
The honey in that jar looks really amber.
- 8
Do people still henna their hair around here?
- 9
I'd hazard a guess that these are cheaper.
- 10
That little tambourine would make a good gift.