نِيرَانُfires in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ أَبُو سُفْيَانَ مَا هَذِهِ لَكَأَنَّهَا نِيرَانُ عَرَفَةَ

  Abu Sufyan said, "What are these? They look like the fires of Arafat."

  نِيرَانُ — fires. The noun 'fires' here is the thing the sight is compared to, sitting as the completion of the 'as if' clause. Its '-u' ending shows it in the plain subject case, the normal shape for the noun that the likeness points to in this construction.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →

• فَقَالَ بُدَيْلُ بْنُ وَرْقَاءَ نِيرَانُ بَنِي عَمْرٍو

  Then Budayl ibn Warqa said, "These are the fires of the sons of Amr."

  نِيرَانُ — fires of. This noun 'fires' heads a possessive pairing with the tribe name that follows, 'the fires of the sons of Amr', identifying whose fires they are. As the lead noun of that chain it carries its definiteness from the owner behind it.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →