فِرَاشِbed

Example sentences

• وَأَعْلَنَ التَّائِبُونَ بِالصِّيَاحِ، وَتَسَاقَطُوا عَلَيْهِ تَسَاقُطُ الْفِرَاشِ عَلَى الْمِصْبَاحِ،

  The repentant cried out, and they fell upon him like moths falling on a lamp.

  الْفِرَاشِ — the moths. A noun made definite by al- 'the', standing in the genitive as the second half of a possessive pairing with the verbal noun before it: 'the falling of the moths'. Arabic builds 'X of Y' by setting the two nouns side by side, so this genitive ending is what supplies the 'of'.

  From: Public Preaching →