Arabic vocabulary
آنَاءhours in Arabic
آنَاء is how you say “hours” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
والاستعانة بالله العظيم في آناء الليل والنهار ،
And seeking help from the Almighty God during the night and the day,
آنَاءِ — the hours. This plural noun, 'the hours, the watches', sits in the possessed ending forced by fi before it, and it heads a possessive pairing with the next word, owning it: 'the hours of the night'. The two nouns stand side by side with no spoken 'of'.
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