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فَتْرَةً for a time in Arabic

فَتْرَةً is how you say “for a time” in Arabic.

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وَفَتَرَ الْوَحْيُ، فَتْرَةً حَتَّى حَزِنَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ

Then the revelation paused for a time, until the Messenger of God became sorrowful; may God send blessings upon him and grant him peace.

فَتْرَةً for a time

A noun used adverbially to measure how long, 'for a while'; its -an accusative is what turns it into a span-of-time phrase rather than a plain object. It tells us the pause lasted a stretch, with no separate word for 'for'.

From The Night of Revelation and Consolation

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