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مُقَنْطَرَة heaped-up in Arabic

مُقَنْطَرَة is how you say “heaped-up” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

زين للناس حب الشهوات من النساء والبنين والقناطير المقنطرة من الذهب والفضة والخيل المسومة والأنعام والحرث فللشهوات حيلة غيار،

Beautified for people is the love of desires: from women and children, and heaped-up treasures of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle and tilled land; but desires have a deceptive strategy,

الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ heaped-up

This is a descriptive word built on the passive participle pattern, meaning 'heaped up / piled high', and it follows the noun it describes, agreeing with it in being definite and in case. Arabic places the describing word after the thing described, the reverse of English, and matches its endings to the noun.

From Preferring the Hereafter

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More example sentences

والقناطير المقنطرة وما اجتمعت إلا بأوزار،

And the heaped-up treasures that are accumulated only through burdens,

الْمُقَنْطَرَةُ the accumulated

A passive-participle describing word meaning 'amassed / piled up', following the treasures it describes and agreeing with them in definiteness and case. Arabic places the describing word after the noun and matches its endings, so the agreement signals which noun the trait belongs to.

From Preferring the Hereafter

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