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الْعَيْشُ life in Arabic

الْعَيْشُ is how you say “life” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَلَوْلَا ذَلِكَ مَا هَنَأَهُ الْعَيْشُ

And were it not for that, life would not be pleasant for him.

الْعَيْشُ life

This noun is the delayed subject of the preceding verb: it is life that would (not) have been pleasant. Its al- makes it definite and the nominative ending marks it as the doer of the pleasantness. It trails its verb in the normal order.

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