آخِرُlast

Example sentences

• وَتَقُولُ هَذَا آخِرُ يَوْمٍ مِنْ شَعْبَانِ وَأَوَّلُ لَيْلَةٍ مِنْ رَمَضَانِ،

  And she said, "This is the last day of Sha'ban and the first night of Ramadan."

  آخِرُ — last. This noun means 'last/final' and serves as the predicate, the completing half, of the verbless 'This is...' sentence. It also opens an 'of' pairing with the day-noun that follows, so it reads 'the last of...'. As the predicate it carries the plain subject ending, while the noun it owns goes genitive.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →

• وَهَذَا آخِرُ ثَلاَثِ مَرَّاتٍ أَنَّكَ تَزْعُمُ لَا تَعُودُ ثُمَّ تَعُودُ

  And this is the last of three times that you claim you will not return, and then you return.

  آخِرُ — last. A noun 'last' heading a possessive pairing with 'three times' after it, 'the last of three times'. Its nominative ending marks it as the sentence's subject; it owns the count that follows, which the pairing pulls into the genitive.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• وَهِيَ يَا أَوَّّلُ يَا آخِرُ

  And it is: O First, O Last.

  آخِرٌ — Last. The divine name 'the Last', addressed after the repeated 'O'. Like its pair 'the First', as the word being called upon it sits in the plain vocative form with no article and no preposition shaping it.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →

• وَأَنَا الْآخِرُ اِحْفَظْ عَقْلَكِ

  And I am the Last. Guard your mind.

  الْآخِرُ — the Last. The divine name 'the Last', made definite by al- ('the'), completing the verbless 'I am the Last' statement. With no linking verb in Arabic, this definite name simply stands as the identity equated with the 'I' before it.

  From: The Four Inner Guards →