دَمْعَةtear in Arabic

Example sentences

• وقال عبد الواحد بن زيد لو رأيت الحسن، لقلت صب على هذا حزن الخلائق؛ من طول تلك الدمعة، وكثرة ذلك النشيج

  Abdul-Wahid ibn Zaid said: If you saw Al-Hasan, you would say: 'The sorrow of all beings has been poured upon him,' because of the length of his weeping and the abundance of his lamentations.

  الدَّمْعَةِ — weeping. This owner noun completes the 'length of that weeping' pairing, so it takes the governed ending, and the 'the' keeps it definite. The feminine ending marks the single-instance noun of weeping.

  From: Grief of the Prophet's Grandson →