أَهْلِكَyour family

Example sentences

• اللَّيْلَةَ اِذْهَبْ إِلَى أَهْلِكَ،

  Tonight, go to your family,

  أَهْلِكَ — your family. A noun with the second-person -ka ('your') attached to its end, addressed to a male listener. The pronoun is the masculine 'your', which agrees with the male child being instructed, and its presence makes the noun definite, so no separate 'the' is needed. As the object of the preposition before it, its ending sits in the governed shape.

  From: Mothers and the Companions →

• وَقَدْ أَمَرَنِي أَنْ أُفَارِقَكَ الْحَقَّ بِأَهْلِكَ

  And he has ordered me to separate you from the truth with your family.

  بِأَهْلِكَ — with your family. The bi- here is a preposition meaning 'with', and it governs the noun it attaches to; fused to the end is -ka, the 'your' possessor, so one word means 'with your family'. The bi- marks accompaniment, who goes along with the action. The possessor ties the family to the addressee.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →