خَطَايَاsins

Example sentences

• وكان أحياناً يدعو بعد التحميد بقوله اللهم باعد بيني وبين خطاياي

  And sometimes he would supplicate after the praise by saying: 'O Allah, distance me from my sins.'

  خَطَايَايَ — my sins. 'my sins' — 'khataya' (broken plural) plus 'my', genitive after 'bayna'; the double -ya holds the plural and the 'my'.

  From: The Opening Chapter →

• وأنفذ العصاة بالتوبة من الخطايا إنقاذا،

  And He redeems the disobedient through repentance from sins as salvation.

  ٱلْخَطَايَآ — the sins. The al- makes this definite, 'the sins'. As the plural noun governed by the preposition 'from', it takes the post-preposition ending Arabic assigns to objects of a preposition.

  From: Signs of God's Transcendence →

• وكان أحياناً يدعو بعد التحميد بقوله اللهم باعد بيني وبين خطاياي

  And sometimes he would supplicate after the praise by saying: 'Oh Allah, distance me from my sins.'

  خَطَايَايَ — my sins. A plural noun with an attached '-my' on its end, the second party of the 'between' relationship, and so in the genitive that the preposition governs. The suffix supplies the owner, and the broken plural, formed by reshaping the word's inner vowels, names the sins the speaker asks to be distanced from.

  From: Praise and Supplication in Prayer →