عُودًاa stick

Example sentences

• أَخَذَ عُودًا فَذَرَعَهُ بِذِرَاعِهِ

  He took a stick, then he measured it against his arm.

  عُودًا — a stick. An indefinite noun, a stick rather than the stick, marked as non-specific by its tail vowel-with-n sound. It is the thing taken, the receiver of the verb's action, so it takes the object case. The indefinite ending is what tells you it is being introduced fresh into the story.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →