سِكِّينknife

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ إِئْتُونِي بِالسِّكِّينِ

  Then he said, "Bring me the knife."

  بِالسِّكِّينِ — with the knife. A 'with/by' preposition fused to a definite noun, and with the 'bring' command this 'with' marks the thing to be brought, an Arabic idiom where 'come with X' means 'bring X'. The al- makes it a specific known knife. In speech the article's l-sound merges into the following letter, though it is still written.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →