مِنْحَةًa gift in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَيَرْعَى عَلَيْهِمَا عَامِرُ بْنُ فُهَيْرَةَ مَوْلَى أَبِيِ بَكْرٍ مِنْحَةً مِنْ غَنَمٍ،

  And Amir ibn Fuhayrah, the freedman of Abu Bakr, tends them with a gift of sheep.

  مِنْحَةً — a gift. An indefinite object noun (the '-an' ending marks both 'a' and the thing-acted-on role); it names what he tends them WITH. It then opens a fresh possessive pair, looking ahead to 'sheep' as its source.

  From: The Secret Migration →