Arabic vocabulary
فَلَاةdeserted place in Arabic
فَلَاة is how you say “deserted place” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
كَانَ عَلَى رَاحِلَتِهِ بِأَرْضٍ فَلَاةٍ،
He was on his mount in a land of desolation,
فَلَاةٍ — deserted place. This describing word follows its noun and agrees with it as indefinite and genitive, the doubled 'n' on its tail matching. It narrows the land to a barren, empty kind, attaching the quality to the noun after it has been named.
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