فَلَاةٍdesolate land

Example sentences

• وَقَدْ أَضَلَّهُ فِي أَرْضٍ فَلَاةٍ

  And he had led him astray in a desolate land.

  فَلَاةٍ — desolate land. This describing word follows its noun and agrees with it as indefinite and genitive, both shown by the doubled 'n' on its tail. It narrows the land to a barren, empty kind, the standard way Arabic tacks a quality onto a noun after naming it.

  From: The Joy of Repentance →