بِلَىdecay

Example sentences

• والثاني وهو الأرجح أن تسوية بنانه إعادتها كما كانت بعد ما فرقها البلى في التراب

  And the second, which is more likely, is that restoring his fingertips refers to making them as they were after decay had dispersed them in the dust.

  البِلَى — decay. This noun carries 'the' and is the doer of the scattering verb just before it, even though it follows the verb. Arabic places the subject after its verb as a matter of course, so the agent 'decay' arrives second though it is the one acting.

  From: Ten Proofs of Resurrection →