عَقاقِيرِherbs in Arabic

Example sentences

• وقال يداوى كل عليل بعقاقير أرضه

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

  بِعَقاقِيرِ — with herbs. The 'bi-' marks the means of treatment, 'with herbs', and forces the genitive on the noun; it is also the front half of 'herbs of his land'. It names what the cure is done with.

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