قُرَيْشًاthe Quraysh

Example sentences

• عَامَ الْفَتْحِ فَبَلَغَ ذَلِكَ قُرَيْشًا،

  It was the Year of the Conquest, and that news reached the Quraysh.

  قُرَيْشًا — the Quraysh. The tribe name here is the object that the news 'reached', and its '-an' tail is the indefinite object ending, marking it as the target of the verb. Arabic shows this 'receiving' role through the ending rather than through word order or a helper word.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →

• فَاتَ قُرَيْشًا فَقُلْ يَا مَعْشَرُ قُرَيْشِ

  Enter among the Quraysh, then say, O assembly of Quraysh.

  قُرَيْشًا — the Quraysh. This proper name is the object of the command 'enter among', marked by the object ending, and stands for the tribe to be entered. The ending is how a reader knows it is acted upon. It names the destination of the entering.

  From: A Spy in the Enemy Camp →