Arabic vocabulary
فَلَاةdeserted place
How to say “deserted place” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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