قتل killing in Arabic
قتل is how you say “killing” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَإِن فِي قَتلهمْ أجرا عِنْد الله لمن قَتلهمْ
For indeed in killing them is a reward with Allah for whoever kills them.
قَتْلِهِمْ killing them
This noun pairs with the attached 'them' as its owner, 'killing them', and sits in the genitive because the preposition before it governs it. It is a verbal idea turned into a noun, with the pronoun as the ones killed.
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More example sentences
فَإِن فِي قَتلهمْ أجرا عِنْد الله لمن قَتلهمْ
For indeed in killing them is a reward with Allah for whoever kills them.
قَتَلَهُمْ kills them
This is a past-tense verb with a built-in 'he' subject and an attached 'them' as object, so one word says 'he kills them'. Inside the relative clause it states the deed that earns the reward.
لَئِن أدركتهم لأقتلنهم قتل عَاد
If I were to encounter them, I would surely kill them like the killing of Aad.
قَتْلَ like the killing of
This noun is the front of a possessive pairing, 'the killing of Aad', and its accusative ending marks it as a verbal-noun object describing the manner of the act. It reaches forward to the owner that follows.