Arabic vocabulary
يَنَامُto sleep
How to say “to sleep” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَسَوَّيْتُ لِلْنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَكَانًا بِيَدَيَّ يَنَامُ عَلَيْهِ،
And I smoothed out a place with my two hands for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, to sleep on it.
يَنَامُ — to sleep. A present-tense verb following the prepared place, expressing its purpose, 'a spot [for him] to sleep on'. Arabic uses this bare present to state the aim of the thing just mentioned. Its 'he' subject is the Prophet.
From: A Night with the Prophet →
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