بَنَاتٍdaughter in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَيَرَوْنَ وَأْدَ الْبَنَاتِ وَيَمْنَعُونَهُنَّ الْمِيرَاثَ

  And they practiced burying daughters alive and denied them inheritance.

  الْبَنَاتِ — the daughters. The owner-noun in the genitive shape completing the possessive pairing 'the burying of the daughters'. The second noun in such a side-by-side pair takes the genitive ending and supplies the whole phrase its definiteness.

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