طعام food in Arabic
طعام is how you say “food” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ألم تر إلى المريض كيف يمتنع عن الطعام اللذيذ خوفًا من زيادة المرض، ويشرب الدواء المرّ رجاء للشفاء؟
Have you not seen how a sick person refrains from delicious food fearing an increase in illness, and drinks bitter medicine hoping for a cure?
الطَّعَامِ food
The noun governed by 'from', in that form, its 'the' marking the food as a known, specific thing. It is what the sick person avoids.
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More example sentences
ولا يتخلف عن مؤاكلة الناس، ولا يتأخر عن إجابة الداعي إلى الطعام،
Nor did he avoid dining with people, nor delay in responding to an invitation to food,
الطَّعَامِ food
This noun is the goal of the invitation, held in the governed form by the preceding 'to'. The 'the' makes it the definite, specific meal.
ولا تدخل الحكمة معدة ملئت طعاما،
Wisdom does not enter a stomach that is full of food.
طَعَامًا food
This indefinite noun is a specifier telling you what the stomach is full of, and its object-style ending marks that role. English would say 'full of food'; Arabic uses a bare noun in this case-ending to do the same job.
فمن قل طعامه قل شربه،
Whoever eats less, drinks less.
طَعَامُهُ his food
This is 'his food', a noun with the attached 'his', and the pronoun ties the food to the unnamed person of 'whoever'. It stands as the subject of the verb just before it, so the food is what becomes little.