زَمَانٌtime

Example sentences

• فقد عذبت الحيوان وضيعت الزمان،

  You have only exhausted yourself and wasted your time.

  الزَّمَانَ — the time. 'time / the age,' in the -a form as object of 'wasted.' What you threw away — your time. Tormenting the body and wasting time: the whole yield of reading logic for spectacle and the world. A blunt verdict.

  From: Revelation Over Philosophy →

• وانقضى زمان الدلال وفات وقت النشوز،

  The time of indulgence has ended, and the moments of rebellion have passed.

  زَمَانُ — time. This is the subject of 'came to an end', placed after its verb and carrying the subject ending, and it heads a possessive pairing, 'the time of indulgence'. So it both runs out and opens the 'of' relationship completed by the next word.

  From: God's Promise of New Life →