مَالِيmy wealth

Example sentences

• وَقَدْ خُطِبَتْ خَدِيجَةُ بِنْتُ خُوَيْلِدٍ وَبُذِلَ لَهَا الصَّدَاقُ مَا آجِلَهُ وَعَاجِلُهُ مِنْ مَالِي،

  And Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was betrothed, and her dowry, both its deferred and its immediate parts, was paid from my wealth,

  مَالِي — my wealth. A noun ending in -i, an attached 'my', so it fuses 'wealth' with the speaker as owner. Sitting after the preposition, it takes the genitive ending too, marking it as the source 'from my wealth' in a single word.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →