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الاِسْتِصْبَاحِ use of a lamp / keeping a lamp lit in Arabic

الاِسْتِصْبَاحِ is how you say “use of a lamp / keeping a lamp lit” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَمَنَعَهُمْ مِنَ الاِسْتِصْبَاحِ فِي اللَّيْلَةِ الْقَابِلَةِ، فَعَمَدَ الْفَضْلُ إِلَى الْقُمْقُمِْ مَمْلُوءٍ،

So he prevented them from having a light on the following night, and so al-Fadl reached toward the flask full of water.

الاِسْتِصْبَاحِ having a light

This is a verbal noun on a 'seeking / making use of' pattern, meaning the act of getting light from a lamp, and it carries al- 'the'. After the 'from' it sits in the genitive. The pattern itself adds the 'seeking-to' nuance to the basic lamp root.

From A Son Protecting His Father

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