Arabic vocabulary
يَأْنِbe time in Arabic
يَأْنِ is how you say “be time” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
ثُمَّ قَالَ أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلرَّحِيلِ
Then he said, "Is it not time to depart?"
يَأْنِ — be time. A present-shaped verb meaning 'to be time/due', here read as a negated past because of the 'lam' before it and clipped into its special ending. The whole thing asks whether the time for departure has not yet come. The clipped ending is the verb's response to the negator, not a separate tense.
From: A Night with the Prophet →
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