طَعَامٌfood in Arabic

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: The Meaning of Fasting →

• 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.

  From: The Meaning of 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.

  From: Eating in Moderation →

• 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.

  From: Eating in Moderation →

• 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'.

  From: Adam and the Rebel →

• 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.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →

• 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'.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →

• 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.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →

• 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.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →

• 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.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →

• 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.

  From: The Barley Loaf That Fed Eighty →