سَفَر journey in Arabic
سَفَر is how you say “journey” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ونهض الصِّدِّيق لرفقة السّفر
And the Truthful One rose to be his travel companion.
السَّفَرِ of the journey
The owner completing 'the companionship of the journey', genitive, definite. The travel he rose to share.
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فَمَا كَانَ إِلَّا الْقَلِيل حَتَّى قدمُوا من السّفر
It was only a little while until they returned from the journey.
السَّفَرِ the journey
In the genitive after 'from', definite — the travel. The journey now completed.
كنا مع رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم في سفر،
We were with the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) on a journey.
سَفَرٍ a journey
This noun is indefinite, 'a journey', presented as new information, and it stands as the object of 'in'. Its indefinite ending plus the preposition's governance set its form; the bare noun supplies the setting of the whole story.
تَأَهَّبْ لِلسَّفَرِ
Get ready to travel.
لِلْسَّفَرِ for the travel
Two prefixes stack here: li- ('for/to') marking purpose, fused with the 'the' of the noun. The li- forces the following noun into the 'of...' ending and frames the travel as the goal you are getting ready FOR, so the small word does the work English spreads across 'for the'.