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18 Words To Describe Rain in Arabic

PHOTO BY DENNIS NETT

How many words can you think of to describe types of rain in Arabic? Well apparently there are 18 and by looking at them, I am only familiar with 2! Check them out as shared on Twitter by Madonna Kalousian.

I might be wrong, but I don’t think there’s any other language that has such accuracy in description as the Arabic language. I wonder if “كابسية” is an actual Arabic word of part of our Lebanese slang.

Someone shared a rough translation of these 18 words:

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