أَوْدٌburying daughters alive

Example sentences

• وَيَرَوْنَ وَأْدَ الْبَنَاتِ وَيَمْنَعُونَهُنَّ الْمِيرَاثَ

  And they practiced burying daughters alive and denied them inheritance.

  وَأْدَ — burying daughters alive. A verbal noun naming the act of the deed itself, and the head of a possessive pairing with the noun after it. As the first half of 'X of Y', it leaves off its own 'the' and draws definiteness from its owner.

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