Breakdown of البيطري عقم الحيوان الشارد.
Questions & Answers about البيطري عقم الحيوان الشارد.
A common Levantine-style pronunciation is:
el-bayṭarī ʿaʔʔam el-ḥayawān esh-shāred
A few useful notes:
- ق in عقّم is often pronounced as a glottal stop ʔ in many urban Levantine accents, so you hear ʿaʔʔam.
- Some speakers keep ق as q, so you may also hear ʿaqqam.
- الشارد is written with ال, but because ش is a sun letter, it is pronounced esh-shāred or ash-shāred, not al-shāred.
البيطري means the veterinarian or the vet.
It comes from the adjective meaning veterinary, but in actual use it often functions as a noun, just like English the vet.
- Masculine: البيطري
- Feminine: البيطرية
So in this sentence, البيطري is the person doing the action.
عقّم is the past tense verb, and here it means sterilized.
With animals, depending on context, it can be understood as:
- sterilized
- neutered