أَجَلِّsake

Example sentences

• وَكَمْ صِغَرٍ قَاسَى الأَبُ لِأَجَلِّ الصِّغَارِ،

  And how often the father endured hardship for the little ones,

  لِأَجَلِّ — for the sake of. The preposition li- ('for') fused onto a noun, building a purpose phrase — 'for the sake of'. The li- assigns the following noun its genitive role and frames the hardship as undertaken for a goal. It opens the phrase that says on whose behalf the father suffered.

  From: This World Is Short →