قَرَابَةkinship in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَمُحَمَّدٌ مِنْ قَدْ عَرَفْتُمْ قَرَابَتَهُ،

  And Muhammad is someone whose kinship you already knew,

  قِرَابَتَهُ — his kinship. A noun ending in -hu, an attached 'his', so it bundles 'kinship' with its owner in one word. The -hu reaches back to the named man, marking the relationship as specifically his and acting as the thing that 'you knew'.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →