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إِمْكَان possibility in Arabic

إِمْكَان is how you say “possibility” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

حتى يدعوه إلى النظر فيما خلق منه ليستقبح منه صحة إمكان رد الماء

So that He might invite him to reflect on what he was created from, deeming the possibility of water's return improbable.

إِمْكَانِ of possibility

This verbal noun names possibility as a thing, owned by 'soundness' before it and itself owning 'the return' after it, forming a chain: the soundness of the possibility of the return. Each link sits directly against the next with no word for 'of'.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

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More example sentences

ولا تلازم بينهما حتى يجعل أحدهما دليلًا على إمكان الآخر

And there is no necessary relationship between them to make one a proof of the possibility of the other.

إِمْكَانِ possibility

This verbal noun names possibility as a thing and opens a possessive pairing with the next word: the possibility of the other. It takes the genitive ending under the preposition before it, and Arabic uses the derived noun to treat possibility as something one can prove.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

فإنه ارتباط من وجوه عديدة ويلزم من إمكان أحدهما إمكان الآخر

For it is a connection in many aspects, and the possibility of one necessitates the possibility of the other.

إِمْكَانِ the possibility

This verbal noun names possibility as a thing and opens a possessive pairing with the next word: the possibility of one of them. It takes the genitive ending under the preposition before it, treating possibility as a thing that can entail another.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

فإنه ارتباط من وجوه عديدة ويلزم من إمكان أحدهما إمكان الآخر

For it is a connection in many aspects, and the possibility of one necessitates the possibility of the other.

إِمْكَانُ the possibility

This verbal noun names possibility again and is the subject that the entailment verb produces: from the possibility of one follows the possibility of the other. It opens its own pairing with the next word.

From Ten Proofs of Resurrection

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