ذَاتُpossessing

Example sentences

• اِسْتَعْجَمْتُ دَارِ نِعَمٍ مَا تَكَلَّمْنَا وَالدَّارُ لَوْ كَلَّمَتْنَا ذَاتُ أَخْبَارٍ

  I was astonished at the House of Blessings; we did not speak, and if the house spoke to us, it would have many stories.

  ذَاتُ — possessing. A word meaning 'possessor of / endowed with', heading an ownership-style pairing with the noun after it. It functions as the predicate, 'it would be one possessing stories', and bonds to the following noun to say what the house is full of.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →