بُيُوتhouses

Example sentences

• فَلَمَّا فارقا بيوت مَكَّة اشْتَدَّ الحذر بالصدّيق

  When they left the houses of Mecca, caution intensified for the Truthful One.

  بُيُوتَ — the houses. A broken plural 'houses', the object of 'left', accusative ('-a'), and first term of an 'of' pairing — 'the houses of Mecca'. It owns the place-name that follows.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• وَمَا اجْتَمَعَ قَوْمٌ فِي بَيْتٍ مِنْ بُيُوتِ اللَّهِ يَتْلُونَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ، وَيَتَدَارَسُونَهُ فِيمَا بَيْنَهُمْ؛

  No people gather in one of the houses of Allah, reciting the Book of Allah and studying it among themselves;

  بُيُوتِ — the houses. A broken plural, 'houses', governed by the partitive 'of' and heading an 'of' pairing with 'God'. So 'one of the houses of God', the mosques.

  From: Easing a Believer's Hardship →