حَرْفًاletter

Example sentences

• لَيْتَنِي أَكُونُ حَيًّا ذَكَرَ حَرْفًا

  I wish I were alive to hear him mention a single letter.

  حَرْفًا — a single letter. The thing mentioned, sitting as the object of 'mentioned', so it wears the -an accusative that marks what an action falls on. It is left indefinite, 'a (single) letter', which together with the verb stresses how even one word would be treasured.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →