خُرُوجِgoing out

Example sentences

• قَالَ فَإِنِّي قَدْ أُذِنَ لِي فِي الْخُرُوجِ

  He said, "I have indeed been permitted to go out."

  الْخُرُوجِ — the going out. An action-noun 'the going-out' made specific by al-, sitting in the genitive after 'in'. Built from a verb but used as a noun, it names the activity permitted; the al- marks it as the known, agreed-upon departure.

  From: The Secret Migration →

• وَلَا يَتَمَكَّنُ مِنْ خُرُوجِ إِلَى حَمَّامٍ وَلَا غَيْرِهِ،

  and he was unable to go out to the bathhouse or anywhere else,

  خُرُوجِ — going out. This is an action noun, a noun made from a verb that names the act of 'going out' as a thing. It lets Arabic treat a whole action as a single noun that a preposition can govern, which is why it sits in the genitive after 'from'. English does the same trick with its '-ing' form.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →