حَجَرَstone

Example sentences

• وَإِنْ كُنْتُ لَأَشُدُّ الْحَجَرَ عَلَى بَطْنِي مِنَ الْجُوعِ،

  And if I were to press a stone against my belly from hunger,

  الْحَجَرَ — the stone. A noun made specific by the prefixed 'the'; it is the thing acted upon, the object of the pressing, which is why it takes the object form rather than the subject form. The definiteness points to a particular stone in the scene. Arabic marks 'this is the receiver of the action' by the vowel on the ending, not by word order alone.

  From: Generosity to the Poor →