عُمْرِ life in Arabic
عُمْرِ is how you say “life” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
واعلم أن كل لحظة من عمرك رأس مال لك،
And know that every moment of your life is capital for you,
عُمْرِكَ your life
The -ka ending means 'your' and makes you the owner of this noun. Because the preposition for 'from' precedes it, the noun stands in the possessive case, the form prepositions require of what they govern.
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More example sentences
لَقَدْ كَانَ حِرْصُهُ عَلَى أَوْقَاتِ عُمْرِهِ شَدِيدًا،
He was extremely careful about the hours of his life,
عُمْرِهِ his life
A noun with -hi ('his') attached, the owned member completing 'the hours of his life'. The attached possessor sits in the genitive and ties the life to him. The -hi reaches back to the man being praised.
لَقَدْ إِبْتَدَأَ إِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي التَّصْنِيفِ وَلَهُ مِنَ الْعُمْرِ سَبْعَ عَشَرَ سَنَةً؛
Ibn al-Jawzi began compiling works when he was seventeen years old.
الْعُمْرِ the age
A definite noun, 'the lifespan', used as the measure inside the 'he had of years...' age formula; it sits in the after-preposition case under 'of'. The idiom states age as a quantity drawn from one's span of life.