بُكَاءُweeping

Example sentences

• فَجِئْتُ فَإِذَا الْبُكَاءُ مِنْ حُجُرِهَا كُلِّهَا،

  I came, and suddenly there was weeping from all her rooms.

  الْبُكَاءُ — the weeping. A definite noun with 'al-' standing as the subject of the verb-less surprise scene; with no 'is' word, the 'al-' marks the weeping as the thing that was suddenly there.

  From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →