Arabic vocabulary
مَتْنٌbody
How to say “body” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
يَكُونُ ثُبُوتُ قَدَمِهِ عَلَى الْصِّرَاطِ الْمَنْصُوبِ عَلَى مَتْنِ جَهَنَّمِ،
His footing will be firm on the bridge erected over the body of Hell.
مَتْنِ — the body. The first half of an 'of' pairing ('body of'), owned by 'Hell' next, with the two set directly together. As the owned term it carries no 'the' of its own and takes definiteness from the owner. Its genitive ending comes from the preposition before it.
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