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وقت time in Arabic

وقت is how you say “time” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وإذا كانوا يقولون الوقت الحاضر والساعة الراهنة وإن لم يفعلا ذلك فكيف يمتنع أن يقولوا ماء دافق وعيشة راضية

And if they say 'the present time' and 'the current hour' without those phrases acting, how could they refrain from saying 'gushing water' and 'contented life'?

الوَقْتَ the time

A noun made definite by al-, 'the time', the direct object of 'they say', hence the object ending, and described by the adjective after it. It is the first cited phrase, 'the present time'.

From Creating Life from Nothing

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قُلْتُ لَهُ وَلَا يَنْتَقِضُ هَذَا بِالْمُلُوكِ الظَّلَمَةِ الَّذِينَ مَكَّنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَقْتًا مَا

I said to him, 'This is not refuted by the oppressive kings whom God empowered on the earth for a period of time.'

وَقْتًا for a period of time

This noun lacks 'the' and ends in the indefinite mark and the accusative, 'for a time'. Arabic uses this bare accusative to mark duration, the span over which something holds, without a separate word like 'for'.

From Signs of the Messenger in Medina

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