النَّخْلِthe palm trees

Example sentences

• إِنْطَلَقَ بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَأُبَيُّ بْنُ كَعْبٍ إِلَى النَّخْلِ

  After that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and Ubayy ibn Ka'b set out toward the palm trees.

  النَّخْلِ — the palm trees. A noun made definite by the prefixed 'the' and held in the genitive by the preposition before it. It names the specific place the journey is aimed at, with the 'the' marking it as a known, identifiable spot.

  From: A Night with the Companions →

• فَرَأَتْ أُمُّ ابْنِ صَيَّادٍ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَهُوَ يَتَّقِي بِجُذُوعِ النَّخْلِ

  Then the mother of Ibn Sayyad saw the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, while he was taking shelter by the trunks of the palm trees.

  النَّخْلِ — the palm trees. A noun made definite by the prefixed 'the', completing the 'trunks of' pairing as its owner. Set directly after with no separate 'of', it takes the possessed-side ending that signals the possessive link to 'trunks'.

  From: A Night with the Companions →