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حِمًى sanctuary in Arabic

حِمًى is how you say “sanctuary” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

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More example sentences

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

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