Arabic vocabulary
يَنَامُto sleep in Arabic
يَنَامُ is how you say “to sleep” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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