غُلَامًاa boy

Example sentences

• فَأَمْكَنَتْهُ مِنْ نَفْسِهَا فَوَلَدَتْ غُلَامًا،

  She allowed him access to her and gave birth to a boy.

  غُلَامًا — a boy. This is what she bore, the thing the verb 'give birth to' lands on, and its -an tail marks it as an indefinite object -- 'a boy', newly brought into the story. The ending does the work English does with 'a'.

  From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →

• وَأَوْصَى إِنْ وَلَدْتِ غُلَامًا أَنْ تُسَمِّيهِ يَالَادِين

  And he instructed that if you give birth to a son, name him Yaladin.

  غُلَاما — a son. An indefinite noun, a boy, not the boy, marked non-specific by its tail vowel-with-n sound. It is the thing born, the object of the giving-birth verb, so it takes the object case. The indefinite ending introduces the child as a hypothetical, unborn one.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →