أَوْقَاتِhours

Example sentences

• لَقَدْ كَانَ حِرْصُهُ عَلَى أَوْقَاتِ عُمْرِهِ شَدِيدًا،

  He was extremely careful about the hours of his life,

  أَوْقَاتِ — hours. This noun heads an 'of' pairing, 'the hours of...': it leans on the following noun and takes definiteness from it, dropping its own 'the'. Governed by the preceding 'over', it sits in the genitive. The bare juxtaposition builds 'X of Y'.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• فَأَرْصَدْتُهَا لِأَوْقَاتِ زِيَارَتِهِمْ،

  So I set it aside for the times of their visits.

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

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →