مَاءُwater

Example sentences

• فَسَبَقَهَا مَاءُهُ كَانَ الشَّبَهُ لَهُ،

  If his seminal fluid came first, the resemblance was his.

  مَاءُهُ — his seminal fluid. A noun with an attached 'his' acting as the doer of 'preceded': it is his fluid that came first. The word literally means 'water' but is used here for the man's fluid, and the suffix supplies the possessor inside the word.

  From: What Was Created First →

• شَرِبَ الْمَاءَ الَّذِي فِي النَّهْرِ كُلَّهُ أَوْ افْتَدَى مِنْهُ

  He drank all the water that was in the river, or he redeemed himself from it.

  المَاء — the water. A definite noun carrying the article 'al-' (the) and standing as the object of 'drank'. The article fixes it as a specific, known water, the river's, not water in general. Arabic shows definiteness with this attached 'al-' rather than a separate word.

  From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →