مَقْدَرَةpower

Example sentences

• لِيَعْلَمَ فِرْعَوْنُ حِينَ يَنْظُرُ إِلَيْهَا أَنَّ مَقْدَرَتُهُ تَعْجِزُ عَنْ مِثْلِ مَا أُوتِيتُمَا،

  Pharaoh will know when he looks at it that his power cannot match what you two were given.

  مَقْدَرَتُهُ — his power. This noun has -hu, the 'his' possessor, fused to its end, pointing back to Pharaoh, so one word means 'his power'. It is the subject of the 'that' clause, the thing said to fall short. Arabic folds the owner into the noun rather than using a separate possessive word.

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