مَدِينَةِMedina

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ لِرَجُلٍ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ أَوْ مَكَّةٍ

  Then he said to a man from Medina or Mecca.

  الْمَدِينَةِ — Medina. Second half of the 'people of [the city]' pairing, so it carries the 'of'-style ending the owned-by link requires; its 'al-' (the) is built into the place-name. It names the city the man belonged to. The pairing is shown by adjacency alone.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →

• طَرِيقَكَ عَلَىٰ الْمَدِينَةِ

  Your way is toward the city.

  الْمَدِينَةِ — the city. The al- makes it definite — *the* city — and it sits in the 'of' (genitive) shape because the preposition before it governs it. It is the place the route is aimed at.

  From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →