أَبْدَانِbodies

Example sentences

• وَعِلَاجُ الأَبْدَانِ أَيْسَرُ خَطَبًا حِينَ تَعْتَلُ مِنْ عِلَاجِ الْعُقُولِ

  And the treatment of bodies is an easier matter when they fall ill than the treatment of minds.

  الأَبْدَانِ — the bodies. This is the possessed second half of the 'of' pairing started by the previous noun, which is why it carries the (genitive) ending. The al- on it makes the whole pairing definite, so the phrase reads 'the treatment of the bodies' rather than 'a treatment'. It is a plural, naming bodies as a class rather than one specific body.

  From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →