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حِيطَان walls in Arabic

حِيطَان is how you say “walls” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَقَوْلُهُمْ لِلْحِيطَانِ آذَانٌ، مَذْكُورٌ فِي قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى وَفِيكُمْ سَمَّاعُونَ لَهُمْ

And their saying: 'Walls have ears' is mentioned in His saying: 'And among you are listeners to them.'

لِلْحِيطَانِ for the walls

This is the preposition 'for, to' merged with 'the walls' (definite via 'al-'). It sets up a possession-by-preposition frame, 'to the walls belong...', the Arabic way of saying walls have something. The prefix forces a genitive on the noun.

From When Scripture Answers Proverbs

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