الْمَاءِthe water

Example sentences

• وَحَكَى غَيْرُ الْمَأْمُونِ أَنَّ السَّجَّانُ فَطِنَ لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ بِالْمِصْبَاحِ فِي تَسْخِينِ الْمَاءِ،

  And another narrator, not al-Ma'mun, reported that the jailer noticed his staying close by the lamp in heating the water.

  الْمَاءِ — the water. This noun carries al- 'the' and is the thing acted upon by the verbal noun before it: what was heated. Because an action-noun pulls its object into the genitive, this word wears the genitive ending. So 'the heating of the water' is built as an action-noun plus its genitive object.

  From: A Son Protecting His Father →