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أَرْضِ ground in Arabic

أَرْضِ is how you say “ground” in Arabic.

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ولا يُشترط ترتيبٌ خاصٌّ في أخذِ الترابِ للعضوين؛ فلو ضَرَبَ يديه على الأرض، وأمكنه مسحُ الوجهِ بيمينه، ثم يَمينُه بيساره، جاز

There is no specific order required for taking the dust for the limbs; if one strikes his hands on the ground, it is permissible to wipe the face with his right hand, then his right hand with his left.

الْأَرْضِ the ground

'the ground,' in the -i form after 'on' — the earth he strikes to raise dust. The source of the dust for his tayammum.

From The Practice of Earth Cleansing

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فسر الرجع به ومقابلته بصدع الأرض عن النبات

The returning was interpreted as such, and its counterpart is the earth's splitting with plants.

الأَرْضِ earth's

A noun made definite and standing as the owner in a possessive pairing with the splitting before it: the earth is what does the splitting, joined directly with no separate word for 'of'. Its genitive ending is the mark of being the second, owning noun in that pairing.

From Witnesses to God's Word

فأقسم سبحانه بالسماء ذات المطر والأرض ذات النبات

Then Allah swore by the sky with its rain and the earth with its plants.

وَالأَرْضِ and the earth

wa- (and) on a definite noun 'the earth', linking it in parallel to the sky as a second thing sworn by. Because it continues under the same oath-'by', it stays in the genitive ending; the al- marks it as a known category.

From Witnesses to God's Word

وقال يداوى كل عليل بعقاقير أرضه

And he said, 'Treat every sick person with the herbs of their land.'

أَرْضِهِ of his land

This is 'his land', the owner in 'herbs of his land', in the genitive to mark possession, with the attached 'his' pointing to the sick person. The remedy is tied to where that person comes from.

From Moderation in Medicine

إِنْ كُنْتُ لَأَعْتَمِدُ بِكَبِدِي عَلَى الْأَرْضِ مِنَ الْجُوعِ،

If I were to lean my side on the ground because of hunger,

الْأَرْضِ the ground

This is a noun made definite by the attached 'the', and it sits in the form a preposition demands, because the 'on' just before it governs it. Its role is the surface the speaker leans against. The definiteness signals a specific, known ground rather than ground in general.

From Generosity to the Poor

فَإِنَّهُ أَوَّلُ رَسُولِ بَعَثَهُ اللَّهُ إِلَى أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ

So indeed he was the first messenger sent by Allah to the people of the earth.

الْأَرْضِ the earth

A noun with 'the' attached, sitting in the 'of' form as the tail of the pairing with 'people' before it, together 'the people of the earth'. It supplies the definiteness of the whole phrase. Arabic builds this 'of' link by simply juxtaposing the two nouns with no separate word between them.

From Intercession on Judgment Day

ثُمَّ سَأَلَ عَنْ أَعْلَمِ أَهْلِ الْأَرْضِ،

Then he asked about the most learned person on earth.

الْأَرْضِ the earth

This noun carries 'al-' (the) and closes the possessive chain as its final owner: 'the people of the earth'. Sitting in the 'of...' (genitive) shape, its definiteness from 'al-' flows back through the chain to make the whole superlative phrase definite.

From The Joy of Repentance

اِعْلَمْ يَا أَخِي أَنَّ الْبَيْتَ الْمَعْمُورَ كَانَ فِي الأَرْضِ

Know, my brother, that the Frequented House was on the earth.

الأَرْض the earth

Definite by 'al-', in the genitive ending under the preceding 'in'. It is the location given by the linking verb 'was', telling you where the House stood.

From Seeking Refuge from the Devil

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