الإِلْفَتَيْنِtwo states of familiarity/intimacy

Example sentences

• فقضى لهم حياة وقضى عليهم مماتا،

  So He decreed for them life, and He decreed upon them death.

  الإلفين — the two intimacies. A dual noun, 'the two intimates', with 'two' folded into its ending. The dual is Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' form, supplying what English says with a separate word; it gives the pair that 'between' separates.

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