مرضillness

Example sentences

• ألم تر إلى المريض كيف يمتنع عن الطعام اللذيذ خوفًا من زيادة المرض، ويشرب الدواء المرّ رجاء للشفاء؟

  Have you not seen how a sick person refrains from delicious food fearing an increase in illness, and drinks bitter medicine hoping for a cure?

  الْمَرَضِ — in illness. The owning noun closing the 'increase of the illness' pair. Its 'the' makes the phrase definite, naming the illness as what might increase.

  From: Paradise Over Pleasure →

• أنه كان له حمار فمرض،

  He had a donkey that got sick,

  مرض — got sick. A past-tense verb, 'fell sick', carrying its own 'it' subject, the donkey. The plain past simply records the next event in the tale.

  From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →