حَوَّاءُEve

Example sentences

• يصوركم في الأرحام ولا يدرى آدم ولا حواء،

  He shapes you in the wombs, and neither Adam nor Eve knows.

  حَوَّاءُ — Eve. This proper name is joined to the earlier subject as a second doer, and a coordinated noun shares the role and ending of the one it joins. So it stands in the plain subject ending too, pairing the two figures as joint subjects of the negated knowing.

  From: All Creation Praises Him →

• فَأَكَلَتْ حَوَّاءُ عَنْ قَوْلِهَا وَأَطْعَمَتْ آدَمَ،

  Eve ate because of the serpent's words, and she fed Adam.

  حَوَّاءُ — Eve. A feminine proper name standing as the subject of 'ate', carrying the -u subject ending and placed after its verb. She is the doer of the eating that the 'so' clause reports.

  From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →