زُلَيْخَاZuleikha

Example sentences

• فمن المختارين يوسف النبي صاح الهوى يا زليخا راودي والعبي،

  Among the chosen is the prophet Joseph. Desire called out, 'O Zuleikha, entice and play!'

  زُلَيْخَا — Zuleikha. This proper name is the one being addressed, introduced by the calling particle before it. As the person called, it sits in the address form Arabic uses after the vocative marker rather than the ordinary subject form.

  From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →

• فصوتت ميزان شهوات زليخا بذلك الصبي،

  The scales of Zuleikha's desires tipped because of that boy.

  زُلَيْخَا — Zuleikha's. This proper name closes the possessive chain as the final owner, 'of Zuleikha'. Arabic places the owning name directly after the owned noun with no word for 'of', and the name's fixed form serves in that possessor position.

  From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →