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سِّجْنٌ prison in Arabic

سِّجْنٌ is how you say “prison” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَقَامَ الْفَضْلُ حِينَ أَخَذَ يَحْيَى مِضْجَعَهُ إِلَى قُمْقُمٍ كَانَ بِالسِّجْنِ،

Al-Fadl rose when Yahya took his sleeping mat to a vessel in the prison.

بِالْسِّجْنِ in the prison

The bi- here means 'in / at', marking location, and it fuses with a noun carrying al- 'the'. The preposition forces that noun into the genitive form. It completes the little 'was in the prison' description of the vessel.

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