أَبِيكِyour father

Example sentences

• فَلَوْ سُئِلَ الْجُزْعُ مِنْ أَبِيكِ لَقَالَ الْعَجْزَ

  So if impatience were asked by your father, it would say helplessness.

  أبوك — your father. A kinship noun ('father') with a 'your' attached, in the genitive after the preposition. The suffix names whose father, with the special vowel these few kinship nouns take in such pairings.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →

• وَلَوْ سُئِلَ الْكَيْسُ مِنْ أَبِيكِ لَقَالَ الصَّبْرَ

  And if the prudent one were asked by your father, he would say patience.

  أبوك — your father. A kinship noun ('father') with 'your' attached, in the genitive after the preposition. The suffix names whose father, with the special long vowel these kinship nouns take in such pairings.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →