أَعْيُنُكُمَاyour eyes

Example sentences

• وَلَا تَمُدَّا إِلَى ذَلِكَ أَعْيُنُكُمَا فَإِنَّهَا زَهْرَةُ الحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَةُ الْمُتَرَفِّينَ،

  Do not turn your gaze toward that, for it is the fleeting flower of this worldly life and the ornament of the indulgent,

  أعينكما — your eyes. This is the plural noun 'eyes' with -kuma, the dual 'your (two)' possessor, fused to its end, so one word means 'your two pairs of eyes'. It is the subject of the forbidden 'extend/turn' verb. The -kuma ending is Arabic's dedicated 'belonging to exactly two' possessor.

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