قَوْمِيmy people

Example sentences

• فيقول إن ربي غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإنه قد كانت لي دعوة دعوت بها على قومي،

  He says, "My Lord was angry today with an anger like none before it, and none like it will be after it, and indeed there was for me a supplication which I invoked against my people,"

  قَوْمِي — my people. A noun with a 'my' pronoun fused onto its end, a possessive in one word. It stands in the genitive because the preposition before it governs that ending, and the attached 'my' marks the people as the speaker's own.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →