نَّاسٌpeople

Example sentences

• فَإِنْصَرَفْتُ عَنْهَا وَهِيَ أَحَبُّ النَّاسِ إِلَيَّ

  So I turned away from her, although she was the person dearest to me.

  النَّاسِ — the people. A definite plural noun carrying 'the'. It is the second half of a possessive pairing set directly beside the 'most beloved' before it, so the two nouns together mean 'the dearest of the people'; that side-by-side linking is how Arabic builds 'X of Y' with no separate 'of'.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• لِيَصُدَّ النَّاسَ عَنْهَا

  to turn people away from it

  النَّاسَ — the people. A definite noun in the accusative serving as the direct object of 'turn away', 'the people'. The accusative ending marks them as the ones acted upon, so they are whom he aims to divert.

  From: Three States of the Heart →