طَعَامٌ food in Arabic
طَعَامٌ is how you say “food” in Arabic.
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وبطنه عن الطعام والشراب،
and whose stomach abstains from food and drink,
الطَّعَامِ food
In the genitive after 'from', definite. The first thing abstained from in the literal fast.
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هذا هو الصوم المشروع، لا مجرد الإمساك عن الطعام والشراب
This is the prescribed fasting, not merely abstaining from food and drink.
الطَّعَامِ food
In the genitive after 'from', definite. The first item of mere physical fasting.
ومن تملى من الطعام شيئا، غذا بدنه، وأشرت نفسه، وقسا قلبه
Whoever fills himself with food nourishes his body but makes his soul arrogant and hardens his heart.
الطَّعَامِ food
This is the noun governed by 'from', in the genitive because of it and made definite by 'al-'. It names the food as the source the person takes their fill from.
والطعام السخن مذموم، ونهى عنه صلى الله عليه وسلم
Very hot food is blameworthy, and the Prophet (peace be upon him) forbade it.
والسخن and hot
This adjective 'hot' describes the food and agrees with it in being definite, which is why it also carries 'al-'. Arabic places the describing word after the noun and matches its definiteness, where English would just put 'hot' before the noun.
فقيل لهم كل العبادات طعام وتعبد هذا دقيق الكيس،
It was said to them, "All acts of worship are sustenance, and this devotion is the finest of discernment."
طَعَامٌ sustenance
This indefinite noun is what is said about the subject, the predicate, in the plain subject ending. Arabic joins a topic and its description with no separate 'is', so the bare noun here completes 'all worship is sustenance'.
وهجروا الرفث ثم أقبلوا على الطعام،
They would abandon indecent talk and then approach the food.
الطَّعَامِ the food
The al- makes this definite, 'the food'. As the noun governed by the preposition 'to', it takes the -i ending Arabic assigns to objects of a preposition.
ليؤكل في الصيف البارد، وفي الشتاء الحار إدخال طعام على طعام آخر رديء
Cold foods should be eaten in the summer, and hot foods in the winter; introducing food upon another food is bad.
طَعَامٍ food
This noun is the owner closing the pairing 'the introducing of food', set directly after the action-noun with no word for 'of'. As the possessor it takes the -in indefinite ending, keeping it general, 'food' rather than 'the food'.
ليؤكل في الصيف البارد، وفي الشتاء الحار إدخال طعام على طعام آخر رديء
Cold foods should be eaten in the summer, and hot foods in the winter; introducing food upon another food is bad.
طَعَامٍ another food
This noun is governed by the preposition 'upon', so it sits in the post-preposition slot with the -in indefinite ending, 'another food'. The indefinite form keeps it general, any second food piled on the first.
الحركة قبل الطعام خير كله، كما أنها بعده شر كله
Movement before food is entirely good, just as it is after it entirely evil.
الطَّعَامِ the food
The al- marks this definite, 'the food', and it sits in the possessed ending forced by qabla 'before' just ahead of it. Together qabla plus this noun form a tight 'before the food' unit, the second word locked into the shape the time-word requires.
واللذيذ أحمد لولا الإكثار منه وملازمة الطعام التفه
Delicious food is praiseworthy, were it not for overeating it, and sticking to bland food.
الطَّعَامِ the food
The al- marks this definite, 'the food', and it sits in the possessed, 'of'-type ending because the action-noun before it owns it: 'sticking to the food'. The two nouns stand directly side by side with no word for 'of', the second taking this owned-half shape.
وَلَيْسَ عِنْدَنَا مِنَ الطَّعَامِ مَا نُطْعِمُهُمْ
We do not have any food to feed them.
الطَّعَامِ the food
The food, made definite by al- and governed by the preceding 'of', so in the genitive. The case shows it is the whole that the partitive 'of' draws a (missing) part from.