رَأْسٌtops

Example sentences

• فَقَامَ مُؤذن النَّصْر يُنَادي على رُؤُوس منائر الْأَمْصَار

  The caller to victory stood proclaiming from the tops of the minarets of the cities.

  رُؤُوسِ — the tops of. A broken plural, 'heads/tops', governed by the preposition and heading a stacked 'of' chain: tops-of-the-minarets-of-the-cities. Each noun in the run owns the next, with no 'of' words anywhere.

  From: The Prophet's Refuge in the Cave →

• حبه وَالله رَأس الحنيفة وبغضه يدل على خبث الطوية

  His love is by Allah the essence of Hanifiyyah, and his hatred indicates wickedness of heart.

  رَأْسُ — the essence of. Literally 'head', the word is used figuratively for the topmost or root part of something. As the predicate of the verbless sentence it takes the '-u' ending, and it heads an 'of' pairing, 'the head/core of true faith'.

  From: The Prophet's Refuge in the Cave →

• وَإِن المدل لَا يصعد عمله فَوق رَأسه

  Indeed, the boastful person's deeds do not rise above his head.

  رَأْسِهِ — his head. In the genitive because 'above' governs it, with 'his' fused on. The image is stark: the boaster's deed never clears the top of his own head, rejected for its conceit.

  From: Contentment with What God Wills →

• فقال البائع أنت أحمق، كان ينبغي أن تحمله مقلوبًا وأنت تسير على رأسك حتى لا يسيل

  The seller said: You are foolish; you should have carried it upside down while walking on your head so it wouldn't spill!

  رَأْسِكَ — your head. Genitive by the preposition before it, with the attached -ka 'your' naming the possessor, 'your head'.

  From: Heedless Choices →

• وَتَحْتَ رَأْسِهِ مِرْفَقَةٌ مِنْ أَدَمٍ،

  And beneath his head was a leather cushion.

  رَأْسِهِ — his head. A noun 'head' with a single 'his' possessor fused on the end, in the owned 'of' slot of 'under ___'; the attached owner points to the Prophet and keeps it in the genitive after the place-word.

  From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →