مُسَوَّمَةbranded

Example sentences

• زين للناس حب الشهوات من النساء والبنين والقناطير المقنطرة من الذهب والفضة والخيل المسومة والأنعام والحرث فللشهوات حيلة غيار،

  Beautified for people is the love of desires: from women and children, and heaped-up treasures of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle and tilled land; but desires have a deceptive strategy,

  الْمُسَوَّمَةِ — the branded. A passive-participle describing word meaning 'marked / branded', placed after the horses it describes and matching them in definiteness and case. Arabic puts the describing word behind the noun and harmonizes its endings, so the agreement signals which noun this trait belongs to.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →

• والخيل المسومة يجول بها في حلبة العجب المغوار،

  And the branded horses are paraded in the arena of the bold, showcasing pride,

  الْمُسَوَّمَةُ — the branded. A passive-participle describing word meaning 'branded / marked', following the horses and agreeing with them in being definite. Arabic puts the describing word after the noun and harmonizes the endings, so the match confirms the trait belongs to the horses.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →