شَعْرِhair in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَقُلْتُ إِنْفَضِّ الضَّرْعَ مِنَ التُّرَابِ وَالشَّعْرِ وَالْقِذَى

  I said, "Shake the udder free of dirt, hair, and grit."

  وَالشَّعْرِ — and the hair. The 'wa-' (and) adds this item to the list begun by 'the dirt', fused onto a definite noun whose 'al-' (the) is also pulled in. Sharing the earlier 'from', it stays in the 'of'-style ending. The conjunction simply strings another thing-to-clear onto the series.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →

• شَدِيدُ سَوَادِ الشَّعْرِ، لَا يُرَى عَلَيْهِ أَثَرُ السَّفَرِ، وَلَا يَعْرِفُهُ مِنَّا أَحَدٌ

  His hair is intensely black; he shows no sign of travel, and none of us recognizes him.

  الشَّعْرِ — the hair. The 'the' makes this noun definite, and it closes the chain as the owner, 'the blackness of the hair'. As the final owner it carries the genitive ending; the stacked phrase means 'very black of hair'.

  From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →