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سَاعَةٍ time in Arabic

سَاعَةٍ is how you say “time” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فِي سَاعَةٍ لَمْ يَكُنْ يَأْتِينَا فِيهَا

At a time when he did not come to us.

سَاعَةٍ time

A noun 'hour / time' left indefinite (the tail -in marks 'a', not 'the'), sitting in the genitive after 'in'. Its indefiniteness matters: it is some particular but unspecified hour, which the relative clause then defines as one he never normally came at.

From The Secret Migration

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وَمِنْ هَا هُنَا أَخْذُ الْقَائِلَ قَوْلِهِ الشَجَاعَةِ صَبْرُ سَاعَةٍ

And from here the speaker adopted the saying: "Bravery is patience for an hour."

سَاعَةٍ an hour

An indefinite noun ('an hour') as the owner half of the 'of' chain ('patience of an hour'), in the genitive. Its indefiniteness keeps the span general, framing bravery as enduring for a short while.

From Patience and the Human Self

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