لَيْلَةٌnight

Example sentences

• كل ليلة ينزل سبعون ألف ملك من السماء إلى الأرض إلى مسجد بيت المقدس

  Every night, seventy thousand angels descend from the sky to the earth, to the mosque of Bayt al-Maqdis.

  لَيْلَةٍ — night. layla means 'night'; the '-in' ending — 'every night'.

  From: Angels at al-Aqsa →

• قَالَ نَعَمْ أَسْرَيْنَا لَيْلَتَنَا،

  He said, "Yes, we spent the night."

  لَيْلَتَنَا — our night. A noun with the pronoun '-na' (our) fused on, meaning 'our night', and it acts as the time-stretch covered by the verb, so it takes the object ending. The attached '-na' marks the whole group as the possessor. Arabic can use a bare noun like this to express 'for/through the night'.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →