غَنَمٍsheep

Example sentences

• فَقُلْتُ لَهُ كُلُّ مَا تَرَى مِنَ أَجْرِكَ مِنَ الإِبِلِ وَالْبَقَرِ وَالْغَنَمِ وَالرَّقِيقِ

  So I said to him, "Take all that you see of your pay from the camels, the cattle, the sheep, and the slaves."

  وَالْغَنَمِ — and the sheep. The connector 'wa-' adds another equal item to the running list, the same series-joining job as on the item before it. Its definite noun keeps the genitive ending that the opening 'of' set for the whole list.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• وَيَرْعَى عَلَيْهِمَا عَامِرُ بْنُ فُهَيْرَةَ مَوْلَى أَبِيِ بَكْرٍ مِنْحَةً مِنْ غَنَمٍ،

  And Amir ibn Fuhayrah, the freedman of Abu Bakr, tends them with a gift of sheep.

  غَنَمٍ — sheep. A collective noun meaning livestock as a flock; it is grammatically singular even though it covers many animals. Sitting after the preposition, it takes the 'of' ending and names the source-material of the gift.

  From: The Secret Migration →