عَمّuncle

Example sentences

• وَأَرْسَلَتْ إِلَى عَمِّهَا عَمْرُو بْنِ أَسَدٍ لِيُزَوِّجَهَا فَحَضَرَ،

  She sent to her uncle Amr ibn Asad to have him marry her, and he came.

  عَمِّهَا — her uncle. A noun ('uncle') with the suffix '-ha' ('her') fused on as possessor, in the genitive after 'to'. The attached pronoun ties the uncle to Khadijah, and the name that follows stands in apposition to identify him.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →

• قال الآخر اللهم إنه كانت لي ابنة عم كانت أحب الناس إلىّ

  The other one said: 'O Allah, I had a cousin whom I loved most dearly.'

  عَمٍّ — uncle. This noun closes the 'daughter of an uncle' pairing, so it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending. Set directly after 'daughter' with no separate 'of', it builds the kinship term Arabic uses for a paternal cousin.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →