زَهْرَةُflower

Example sentences

• وَلَا تَمُدَّا إِلَى ذَلِكَ أَعْيُنُكُمَا فَإِنَّهَا زَهْرَةُ الحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَةُ الْمُتَرَفِّينَ،

  Do not turn your gaze toward that, for it is the fleeting flower of this worldly life and the ornament of the indulgent,

  زُهْرَةُ — flower. This noun heads a possessive pairing with 'this worldly life' that follows: it owns nothing itself but is owned, meaning 'the flower of'. As the front half of such a pairing it drops its own 'the' and takes its definiteness from the noun after it. Arabic builds 'flower of X' by simply setting the two nouns together.

  From: Under God's Shield →