طَعَامٍfood

Example sentences

• وَأَمَّا أَوَّلُ طَعَامٍ يَأْكُلُهُ أَهْلُ الْجَنَّةِ

  As for 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 the thing a following clause describes. Its ending marks it as possessed by 'first', completing the phrase.

  From: What Was Created First →

• فَقُلْتُ نَعَمْ قَالَ بِطَعَامٍ قَالَ فَقُلْتُ نَعَمْ

  I said, "Yes." He said, "With food." He said it again, and I said, "Yes."

  بِطَعَامٍ — with food. A 'with' preposition fused to the front of its noun -- 'with food', asking whether the narrator came bearing food. The preposition governs that noun into the genitive ending it assigns, all in one written word.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →