عَهْدًاa pledge

Example sentences

• قَالَ إِنْ أَعْطَيْتَنِي عَهْدًا وَمِيثَاقًا لَتُرْشِدَنَّنِي

  He said, "If you give me a pledge and a covenant, you will surely guide me."

  عَهْدًا — a pledge. A noun standing bare without 'the' to mean 'a pledge', in the object case as the thing given. Its indefiniteness, carried by its own ending, marks it as one such pledge.

  From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →