أَلْوِيِتُهُhis banners

Example sentences

• وَوَقَعَتْ أَلْوِيِتُهُ وَأَعْلَامُهُ مِنْ أَيْدِيهِمْ فَلَيْسُوا يَرْفَعُونَهَا،

  And his banners and standards fell from their hands, so they do not raise them.

  أَلْوِيِتُهُ — his banners. This is a plural noun built by reshaping the singular from the inside (a 'broken' plural) rather than by adding an ending, which is Arabic's normal way of pluralising many older nouns. The -hu tacked on the end is the possessor 'his', so one Arabic word holds both 'banners' and 'his'. It is the grammatical subject of the verb just before it.

  From: Ignoring God's Guidance →