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اللَّيْلَ at night in Arabic

اللَّيْلَ is how you say “at night” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَأَنَا مُذّ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةٍ أَصُومُ النَّهَارَ وَأَقُومُ اللَّيْلَ،

And for forty years I have fasted during the day and stood in prayer at night,

اللَّيْلَ at night,

A definite noun, marked by al-, in the adverb-of-time slot meaning 'through the night'. Like its daytime twin it takes the accusative for a span of time, so no preposition is needed; the ending alone marks it as the stretch across which the night-prayer is kept.

From A Night of Reckoning

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