نَمْsleep in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَقُلْتُ نَمْ يَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ،

  And I said, 'Sleep, O Messenger of God.'

  نَمْ — sleep. A command-form verb addressed to one person, telling him to sleep. Commands take their own clipped verb shape, ending without the usual present-tense vowel. It opens the polite instruction to the Prophet.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →