بَغْدَادِBaghdad

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ يُرْسِلُ أَشْعَارًا كَثِيرَةً إِلَى بَغْدَادِ

  He would send many poems to Baghdad.

  بَغْدَادِ — Baghdad. The place name governed by the preceding 'to'. Because that preposition demands the genitive, the name shows the genitive ending here. It is the endpoint of the motion the verb describes, the place the poems are sent to.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →

• حَتَّى صَارَ عَلَمًا مِنْ أَعْلَامِ بَغْدَادِ،

  until he became one of the leading figures of Baghdad.

  بَغْدَادِ — Baghdad. A place name as the owning second term of the possessive pairing 'leading figures of Baghdad', hence the genitive ending. It pins down which city's notables are meant. Side-by-side placement carries the 'of' relationship with no separate word.

  From: Public Preaching →

• فَكَانَ زُوَّارُ بَغْدَادِ يَحْرِصُونَ عَلَى حُضُورِ مَجَالِسِهِ

  Visitors to Baghdad were eager to attend his sessions.

  بَغْدَادِ — Baghdad. A place name as the owning second term of the pairing 'visitors of Baghdad', hence the genitive. It specifies whose visitors. The two nouns sit directly together with no word for 'of', and definiteness flows from this owning name to the whole phrase.

  From: Public Preaching →