صَيْدُcapture

Example sentences

• فَكَانَ مِنْهَا كِتَابَتُهُ صَيْدُ الْخَاطِرِ،

  Among them was his book, The Capture of Thought,

  صَيْدُ — capture. This noun heads an 'of' pairing forming a book title, 'the Capture of...': it leans on the following noun and takes definiteness from it. Standing as the predicate of the clause it appears in the nominative. The bare juxtaposition builds the title.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →