سَمَاءِsky

Example sentences

• فأقسم سبحانه بالسماء ذات المطر والأرض ذات النبات

  Then Allah swore by the sky with its rain and the earth with its plants.

  بِالسَّمَاءِ — by the sky. A preposition bi- fused onto the definite noun 'the sky', so one chunk means 'by the sky'. After an oath verb this bi- is the special 'I swear by' marker, and it forces the genitive ending; the al- makes the sky a known, definite thing.

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