Arabic vocabulary
لَيْلًاat night in Arabic
لَيْلًا is how you say “at night” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَسِرْنَا لَيْلًا،
So we traveled at night,
لَيْلًا — at night. This noun is used as a time-adverb, telling WHEN the travelling happened, by night, and its -an ending is what casts it into that adverbial role. Arabic turns a noun into a 'when' marker by this accusative shape rather than adding a preposition like 'at'.
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