طَعَامِfood

Example sentences

• فَأَتَانِيٓ آتٍ فَجَعَلَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ، فَأَخَذْتُهُ،

  Then a man came to me and began scooping up the food, so I seized him.

  الطَّعَامِ — the food. A definite noun with 'the' in the genitive, its ending set by the 'from' before it. It is the source the man scoops out of; the case ending, not word order, marks its role as object of the preposition.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• فَرَصَدْتُهُ الثَّالِثَةَ فَجَاءَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ،

  I watched for him a third time, and he came scooping up food.

  الطَّعَامِ — the food. A definite noun with 'the' in the genitive, its ending set by the 'from' before it; the doubled first consonant shows the 'the' has merged into the noun. It is the source the man scoops out of, the object of the preposition.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →

• وَمَا أَوَّّلُ طَعَامِ يَأْكُلُهُ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ

  And what is the first food the people of Paradise will eat?

  طَعَامٍ — food. A noun 'food' in the 'of'-type ending as the owned-half under 'first', and also the thing a following clause describes. Its ending marks it as possessed by 'first', completing 'the first food'.

  From: What Was Created First →