مَلَائِكَةٌangels

Example sentences

• إن لله تعالى ملائكة يطوفون في الطرق يلتمسون أهل الذكر،

  Indeed, Allah, the Exalted, has angels who wander the roads seeking the people of remembrance.

  مَلَائِكَةً — angels. This is the subject of 'indeed' — 'angels' — and it wears the accusative because the emphatic forced that case, even though it is the thing possessed ('God has angels'). It came after the fronted 'for God'. A relative clause describing the angels follows.

  From: Where Angels Gather →

• إن قالت الملائكة نحن أهل التسبيح والتقديس،

  If the angels said, "We are the people of glorification and sanctification."

  الْمَلَائِكَةُ — the angels. Placed after its verb, this definite noun is the real speaker and stands in the plain subject ending. The 'the' marks the angels as known, and its post-verb position follows normal Arabic order; as a non-human plural it draws the feminine-singular verb seen before.

  From: Adam and the Rebel →

• قَالَ فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ ذَاكَ عَدُوُّ الْيَهُودِ مِنَ الْمَلَائِكَةِ

  Then Abdullah said, "That one is the enemy of the Jews from among the angels."

  الْمَلَائِكَةِ — the angels. A definite plural 'the angels' in the 'of'-type ending set by the partitive preposition, naming the group the figure is drawn from. The ending marks it as the whole-set out of which one is singled.

  From: What Was Created First →