نِيرَانfires

Example sentences

• فَإِذَا هُمْ بِنِيرَانٍ كَأَنَّهَا نِيرَانَ عَرَفَةِ،

  Then they were among fires, as if they were the fires of Arafah.

  بِنِيرَانٍ — among fires. The preposition bi- ('with/amid') glued to 'fires', and it forces that noun into the genitive, shown by the '-in' indefinite tail. After the 'lo and behold' opener, this bi- phrase presents what they suddenly found themselves surrounded by.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →

• فَإِذَا هُمْ بِنِيرَانٍ كَأَنَّهَا نِيرَانَ عَرَفَةِ،

  Then they were among fires, as if they were the fires of Arafah.

  نِيرَانَ — fires. This noun 'fires' is the thing the seen fires are likened to, and its '-a' ending is the object case forced by the 'as though' word before it. So although in English 'the fires of Arafah' sounds like a subject, Arabic here marks it as governed by anna.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →