وُجُوهَfaces

Example sentences

• فَقَالَتْ اللَّهُمَّ لَا تُمِتْهُ حَتَّى تُرِيهُ وُجُوهَ الْمُوْمِسَاتِ،

  She said, "O Allah, do not let him die until You show him the faces of the prostitutes."

  وُجُوهَ — faces. This is what gets shown, the thing the verb 'show' lands on, and it is the front noun of an 'X of Y' pair with the word after it. Its own ending marks it as the receiver of the action while it simultaneously owns the noun that follows.

  From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →

• وَتَسْخِيمَ الْوُجُوهَ وَالْقَطْعَ وَالصُلْبَ

  and scorching of the faces, amputation, and crucifixion

  الْوُجُوهَ — the faces. This is a broken plural (its inner vowels reshape to mean 'many'), here the object of the preceding action-noun 'scorching of...'; its al- makes it definite. The accusative-looking marking flags it as what the scorching is done to. It names the faces in the example.

  From: On Reason and Temptation →