نِيرَان fires in Arabic
نِيرَان is how you say “fires” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
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.
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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.