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قُرَيْشًا the Quraysh in Arabic

قُرَيْشًا is how you say “the Quraysh” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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

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More example sentences

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

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