بَارِحَةَlast night

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَا أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ مَا فَعَلَ أَسِيرُكَ الْبَارِحَةَ

  The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "O Abu Hurayrah, what did your captive do last night?"

  الْبَارِحَةَ — last night. A time word with an accusative ending, the form Arabic uses to drop an adverb of time straight into a sentence, 'last night'. The ending alone marks it as 'when' the action happened, with no preposition needed.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• فَقَالُوا هَاتِ الَّذِي أَتَيْتَنَا بِهِ الْبَارِحَةَ

  They said, "Bring the one you brought to us yesterday."

  الْبَارِحَةَ — yesterday. This time-noun works as a 'when' adverbial, fixing the action's moment as the night before, and it takes the object-style ending Arabic uses for such adverbs. Its 'the' marks it as that specific past night. It says when the bringing happened.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →