بِرِّهِمَاdutifulness to them

Example sentences

• أَنَّهُ مَهْمَا بَالَغَ فِي بِرِّهِمَا لَمْ يَفْ بِشُكْرِهِمَا

  However much he went to great lengths to be dutiful to them, he did not repay them with thanks.

  بِرِّهِمَا — dutifulness to them. This noun, 'dutifulness', has the dual 'them two' pronoun on its end, marking it as owed to both parents at once, and it sits in the genitive after the 'in' before it. The dual suffix is Arabic's way of pointing to exactly two owners, the mother and father together. So it means his dutifulness to the two of them.

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