لِأَوْقَاتِfor the times

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ أَعَدَدْتُ أَعْمَالًا لَا تَمْنَعُ مِنَ المُحَادَثَةِ لِأَوْقَاتِ لِقَائِهِمْ،

  Then I prepared tasks that would not prevent conversation for the times of their meeting,

  لِأَوْقَاتِ — for the times. The preposition li- ('for') prefixed to a plural noun that heads an 'of' link to the following word. Li- marks the times as the purpose the tasks were set aside for, and the plural noun leans on the meeting that follows. It governs the whole phrase into the genitive.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →