سَاعَةٌHour

Example sentences

• باب مفتوح من السماء من أبواب الجنة ينزل من الجنات الرحمة على بيت المقدس كل صباح حتى تقوم الساعة

  A gate from the gates of Paradise is open in the heavens, from which mercy descends upon Bayt al-Maqdis every morning until the Hour is established.

  السَّاعَةُ — the Hour. al- = 'the'; saa means 'the Hour (of Judgment)'; the '-u' ending marks it as the subject.

  From: Angels at al-Aqsa →

• وهو من أشراط الساعة،

  It is one of the signs of the Hour.

  السَّاعَةِ — the Hour.. Genitive owner of 'portents' — 'the Hour' (the Last Day); the signs of the Hour.

  From: Avoiding Scholarly Disputation →

• وكم من واعظ مفوه قد أبكى وأثر في الحاضرين تلك الساعة،

  And how many eloquent preachers have moved the attendees to tears at that moment,

  السَّاعَةَ — moment. This noun is in the accusative to work as a time-adverb — 'during that hour' — not as an object. Arabic routinely drops a time-word into the accusative to answer 'when?'. The effect they had was real but lasted only 'that hour', the sentence's quiet point.

  From: Sincere Preaching →

• فَيُرِيحُهَا عَلَيْهِمَا حِينَ تَذْهَبُ سَاعَةٌ مِنَ الْعِشَاءِ،

  So he leaves it to rest with them two when an hour of the evening has passed.

  سَاعَةٌ — an hour. An indefinite noun acting as the doer of 'passes'; its plain doer ending and lack of 'the' mark it as 'a/some hour'. It controls the feminine shape of the verb in front of it.

  From: The Secret Migration →