نَوْعِthe type in Arabic

Example sentences

• حَتَّى يَدْخُلُ فِي النَّوْعِ الثَّانِيِّ مِنْ مَعْنَى الْعَبْدِ وَهُوَ الْعَبْدُ بِمَعْنَى الْعَابِدِ

  until it enters the second sense of the word "slave", which is the sense of "worshipper".

  النَّوْعِ — the type. A definite noun governed by 'in', so it is genitive, naming the category, 'the type/sense'. It is the head of a possessive pair completed further on by 'of the slave'.

  From: What Worship Really Means →

• وَفِيهِمْ مَنْ يُبَارِزُ بِالذُّنُوبِ الْعَظِيمَةِ، مَعَ نَوْعِ مَعْرِفَةِ الْمَنَاهِيِ

  Among them are those who brazenly commit grave sins while having only a limited knowledge of the prohibitions.

  نَوْعِ — a kind of. A noun, 'a kind/sort of', that here softens what follows into 'only a degree of'. It heads an 'of' chain with the next word, so it sits before 'knowledge' as the possessed head and is itself governed into the 'of'-style ending by 'with'. The effect is to limit the knowledge to a partial amount.

  From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →