طُولlength

Example sentences

• وقال عبد الواحد بن زيد لو رأيت الحسن، لقلت صب على هذا حزن الخلائق؛ من طول تلك الدمعة، وكثرة ذلك النشيج

  Abdul-Wahid ibn Zaid said: If you saw Al-Hasan, you would say: 'The sorrow of all beings has been poured upon him,' because of the length of his weeping and the abundance of his lamentations.

  طُولِ — length of. This noun is held in the governed form by the preceding 'because of', and it heads an 'of' pairing with what follows: the length of that weeping. As the chain's front it carries no 'the' of its own.

  From: Grief of the Prophet's Grandson →