لِلرَّحِيلِfor the departure

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ قَالَ أَلَمْ يَأْنِ لِلرَّحِيلِ

  Then he said, "Is it not time to depart?"

  لِلرَّحِيلِ — for the departure. Preposition 'for' fused with a definite noun whose 'al-' (the) is also pulled in, so one chunk says 'for the departure'. The preposition forces that noun into the 'of'-style ending and marks it as what it is time for. So it names the thing the question is about being due.

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