أَبَتِfather

Example sentences

• قَالُوا يَا أَبَتِ كَيْفَ نَحْتَالُ

  They said, "O father, how shall we devise a plan?"

  أَبَتِ — father. A noun being called out under the address-word, here 'father'; its short ending is the special form a noun takes when paired with 'my' in direct address. It is the one being summoned, not a subject or object of any verb.

  From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →