الْقَوْمَthe people in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَلَمْ يُفَاجِئْ الْقَوْمَ لَيْلَةً بَعْدَمَا هَدَأَتْ الْعُيُونُ

  So the people were not surprised that night, after the springs had settled.

  الْقَوْم — the people. A definite noun standing as the object of the surprising and so in the object-style ending. It is the party that, the sentence says, was not taken unawares.

  From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →