خِدْنِa friend

Example sentences

• فَشَرِبْتُ يَوْمًا عِنْدَ خِدْنِ لَيِّ حَتَّى ثَمِلْتُ وَزَالَ عَقْلِي،

  One day I drank at a man's house until I became intoxicated and my mind left me.

  خِدْنِ — a friend. This noun stands directly after the location word and so takes the genitive ending it requires. It is also the first half of an 'of' pairing with the word after it, meaning it hands its definiteness down the chain and is itself 'owned' by what follows, building a 'the place of so-and-so' phrase.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →