حِمًىsanctuary

Example sentences

• أَلَا وَإِنَّ لِكُلِّ مَلِكٍ حِمًى،

  No doubt, every king has a sanctuary.

  حِمًى — a sanctuary. A protected preserve, the delayed subject of the sentence, indefinite. Coming after the fronted 'for every king', it completes 'every king has a preserve', the everyday fact that sets up the lesson.

  From: The Lawful, the Forbidden, and the Grey →

• كَالرَّاعِي يرْعَى حول الْحمى يُوشك أَن يَقع فِيهِ

  Like a shepherd grazing around a sanctuary, he is likely to fall into it.

  الحِمَى — a sanctuary. Definite noun, 'the protected ground', held in the possessed form by the position-word before it. The 'the' marks it as the specific reserved area; together they say where the grazing happens.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →

• أَلا وَإِن لَك ملك حمى

  Indeed, every king has a protected sanctuary.

  حِمًى — a sanctuary. Indefinite noun, 'a sanctuary', with the 'a/an'-style ending, functioning as the thing each king possesses. Arabic states existence-and-possession ('every king has...') with no verb 'has' at all, just the arrangement of nouns.

  From: Patience in Hard Times →