صَخْرَةِthe rock

Example sentences

• فَإِذَا أَنَا بِرَاعٍ مُقْبِلٍ بِغَنَمِهِ إِلَى الصَّخْرَةِ

  Then I came upon a shepherd approaching the rock with his flock.

  الصَّخْرَةِ — the rock. A definite noun, made so by its fused 'al-' (the), standing as the destination governed by the 'to' before it, so it takes the 'of'-style ending. Its first letter is a sun-letter, so the 'al-' blends into a doubled 's' in speech (as-sakhra). It names where the shepherd was heading.

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