الدَّارُthe house

Example sentences

• اِسْتَعْجَمْتُ دَارِ نِعَمٍ مَا تَكَلَّمْنَا وَالدَّارُ لَوْ كَلَّمَتْنَا ذَاتُ أَخْبَارٍ

  I was astonished at the House of Blessings; we did not speak, and if the house spoke to us, it would have many stories.

  وَالْدَّارُ — and the house. Front wa- is the joiner 'and', linking the next clause; the al- makes the noun definite, 'the' house. The wa- here sets up a contrast clause ('and the house, if it spoke...'), opening the counterfactual that follows.

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