صُغْرَىyounger woman

Example sentences

• فَقَالَتْ الصُّغْرَى أَتَشَقَّهُ

  The younger woman said, "Shall I cut him open?"

  الصُّغْرَى — the younger woman. A describing word, 'the younger', standing in for a full noun and read as 'the younger woman' on its own. The al- makes her a specific, identified person. She is the speaker doing the saying, so she takes the plain naming case Arabic gives the subject.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →