حَامٌanimal declared taboo

Example sentences

• وَيُحَرِّمُونَ السَّائِبَةَ وَالْبُحَيْرَةَ وَالْوَصِيلَةَ وَالْحَامَ

  And they forbade the roaming animal, the animal marked for pregnancy, the animal tied to others, and the animal declared taboo.

  وَالْحَامَ — the animal declared taboo. The final item in the coordinated list, tied in by the attached 'and' and still an accusative object of the forbidding. It closes the series of customary animal categories the verb governs.

  From: Finding the Prophet's Way →