النُّقَمِmisfortunes

Example sentences

• وَمُفَاجَأَةِ النُّقَمِ،

  and the sudden onset of misfortunes,

  النُّقَمِ — the misfortunes. A definite plural closing the 'of' chain, 'sudden onset of the misfortunes', so it takes the 'of'-style ending as what strikes. The two nouns sit directly together, the case marking alone signalling possession. It names the calamities whose abrupt arrival the reader is warned to dread.

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