Arabic vocabulary
نَوْمsleep
How to say “sleep” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كَانَ أَوَّلُ مَا بُدِئَ بِهِ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الرُّؤْيَا الصَّادِقَةَ فِي النَّوْمِ،
The first thing the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, experienced was the truthful dream during sleep.
النَّوْمِ — sleep. This noun is governed by the preposition before it, which is why it takes the genitive ending. It supplies the setting, the state of sleep, in which the truthful dream came.
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