خَيْلhorses

Example sentences

• 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,

  وَالْخَيْلِ — and the horses. Joined by 'and' to the list of desirable things, this noun reaches back to the case of those items and stays genitive. It is also the noun that the following describing word qualifies, so it sets up 'the branded horses' as the next coveted thing.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →

• والخيل المسومة يجول بها في حلبة العجب المغوار،

  And the branded horses are paraded in the arena of the bold, showcasing pride,

  وَالْخَيْلُ — And the horses. The 'and' resumes the list with the horses, and the 'the' marks them as the known type. Here the noun is the topic that the rest of the sentence comments on, so it is set up as what the following description and verb are about.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →