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غُلَامًا a boy in Arabic

غُلَامًا is how you say “a boy” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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'.

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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.

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