ثَانِيَةٌsecond time

Example sentences

• فَقَالَ لَهُ الثَّانِيَة مثل ذَلِك فاعرض عَنهُ

  So he said to him a second time the same thing, but he turned away from him.

  الثَّانِيَةَ — a second time. 'al-' = 'the'; the ordinal 'second' (feminine), used adverbially with the '-a' accusative, 'the second time'.

  From: Luqman's Response to Injustice →

• الْكَبِيرَةُ الثَّانِيَةُ قَتْلُ النَّفْسِ

  The second major sin: Killing a soul.

  الثَّانِيَةُ — the second. An ordinal 'the second' with al- 'the', agreeing in definiteness with the noun it describes. As an ordinal it ranks the sin in a numbered list rather than counting a quantity. It follows its noun and matches it in being definite, the normal Arabic order of noun-then-adjective.

  From: The Gravity of Murder →