أَخِيكَyour brother

Example sentences

• فَقَالَتْ خَدِيجَةُ يَا ابْنَ عَمِّ اِسْمَعْ مِنْ ابْنِ أَخِيكَ

  Khadijah said, "O cousin, listen to what your nephew has to say."

  أَخِيكَ — your brother. The closing, owning noun of the 'son of ...' chain, with the 'your' fused onto its end as a suffix rather than a separate word. That attached possessor is itself the reason the chain reads 'son of your brother', i.e. nephew; sitting as the owned-by end of the pair, the noun takes the genitive ending.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →