الرَهْنَthe pledge

Example sentences

• يَغْدُو عَلَيَّ الْخُبْزُ مِنْ خَابِزٍ لَا يَقْبَلُ الرَهْنَ وَلَا يَنْسَى،

  Bread comes to me in the morning from a baker who neither accepts pledges nor overlooks debts.

  الرَهْنَ — the pledge. The al- makes this definite, 'the' pledge, the specific known thing. It is the receiver-of-the-action of 'accept', so it wears the accusative object ending, marking it as what the baker will not take.

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