فَمmouth

Example sentences

• وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى ٥ الْكَهْف ﴿كَبرت كلمة تخرج من أَفْوَاههم﴾ الْآيَة

  And from it His, the Exalted, saying: 'Grievous is the word that comes out of their mouths.'

  أَفْوَاهِهِمْ — their mouths. 'their mouths' — 'afwah' (a broken plural of 'mouth') with 'their' attached, genitive after 'min'. The '-hum' is 'their', pointing to the deniers spoken of.

  From: The Declaration of Faith →

• قال العطار لأنك وضعت الدواء في عينه، وكان ينبغي أن تجعله في فمه

  The herbalist said, 'Because you put the medicine in its eye, and you were supposed to put it in its mouth.'

  فَمِهِ — its mouth. The place, 'its mouth', in the genitive after the preposition, with the owner attached as a suffix pointing back to the donkey. One word carries noun and owner.

  From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →

• فقال جحا لو كنت تعلم أن الدواء يوضع في الفم ما أعطيتني إياه لعين

  Joha said, 'If you knew that the medicine should go in the mouth, why did you give it to me for the eye!'

  الفَمِ — the mouth. The place, 'the mouth', in the genitive after the preposition, made definite by its 'the'.

  From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →