الْخَانِthe inn in Arabic

Example sentences

• يَا أَيُّهَا السَّائِلُ عَنْ مَنْزِلِي نَزَلْتُ فِي الْخَانِ عَلَى نَفْسِي،

  O questioner who asks about my dwelling, I stayed at the inn by myself.

  الْخَانِ — the inn. The al- makes this definite, 'the' inn, the specific known lodging. Sitting after the preposition, it takes the genitive ending that prepositions impose, marking it as the place the speaker stayed in.

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