زَرْعٌcrops

Example sentences

• كَمَا يتولّد الزَّرْع عَن المَاء والإحراق عَن النَّار

  Just as crops arise from water and burning from fire.

  الزَّرْعُ — crops. al- = 'the'; zar' means 'crops, planting' — the subject of 'arises'.

  From: Returning to God →

• قال نعم يا سيدي، ناقته دخلت حائطي وأكلت زرعي، فحبستها حتى يأتي صاحبها

  He replied: Yes, my lord, his camel entered my field and ate my crops, so I detained it until its owner comes.

  زَرْعِي — my crops. This is 'crop, sown field' with the attached 'my', a possessive, the crops belonging to the speaker. It is the object of 'ate', what the camel consumed. The suffix marks the produce as the neighbor's.

  From: Justice in the Field →

• قال الجار أكلت زرعًا قيمته عشرة دراهم

  The neighbor said: It ate crops worth ten dirhams.

  زَرْعًا — crops. This is 'crops, sown produce', indefinite, the object of 'ate', so it takes the accusative ending that marks the thing acted upon. It is then qualified by a value phrase that follows. It names what the camel consumed.

  From: Justice in the Field →

• وَزَرْعٌ إِسْمَاعِيلُ، وَضِئْضِئِي مَعَدٌ، وَعُنْصُرُ مُضَرٌّ،

  and the offspring of Isma'il, the descendants of Ma'ad, and the branch of Mudar.

  وَزَرْعٌ — and offspring. Front wa- is the plain joiner 'and', tacking this item onto the previous list of lineage claims. The noun it carries is being lined up in parallel with the earlier items, so wa- here is doing list-building work, stacking one descent term beside another.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →