شَهَوَاتِdesires

Example sentences

• فصوتت ميزان شهوات زليخا بذلك الصبي،

  The scales of Zuleikha's desires tipped because of that boy.

  شَهَوَاتِ — of desires. This noun continues the possessive run: it is owned by 'the balance' and in turn owns the name after it, forming a three-link chain 'the balance of the desires of Zuleikha'. Standing as a possessor, it takes the -i ending of that slot.

  From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →

• وَالْخَيْلُ الْمَوْسُومَةُ وَالْأَنْعَامُ وَالْحَرْثَ فَلِلشَّهَوَاتِ حِيْلَةٍ غِيَارٍ،

  And the branded horses, the livestock, and the cultivated fields — desires have a deceitful device for substitution.

  فَلِلشَّهَوَاتِ — so for the desires. A layered word: the prefix fa- ('so/then') marks a turn to the consequence, then the preposition li- ('for') governs a noun carrying al- ('the'). So fa- pivots the thought and li- assigns the following noun its genitive object role. Together they set up 'so for the desires ...', steering from the list to the moral point.

  From: This World Is Short →