ثَّانِيَةsecond in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَأَخَذَنِي فَغَطَّنِي الثَّانِيَةَ حَتَّى بَلَغَ مِنِّي الْجُهْدُ،

  So he seized me, and the second one covered me until I became exhausted.

  الْثَّانِيَةَ — the second one. An ordinal 'second' carrying the 'the' marker, in its feminine form to match an understood feminine 'time'; its accusative ending makes it an adverb, 'the second time'. So it counts the occurrence rather than naming a thing.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →