أَرْضُland

Example sentences

• انطلق إلى أرض كذا وكذا، فإن بها أناساً يعبدون الله تعالى فاعبد الله معهم،

  Go to such and such a land, for there are people who worship Allah there, so worship Allah with them.

  أَرْضِ — a land. Genitive after 'to', this noun ('land') heads a possessive with the placeholder to come — 'the land OF such-and-such'. So it is both object of 'to' and owner of the next word. It names an unspecified destination.

  From: Righteous Company →

• ولا ترجع إلى أرضك فإنها أرض سوءٍ،

  And do not return to your land, for it is a land of evil.

  أَرْضِكَ — your land. Genitive after 'to', this noun carries attached 'your' — 'your land', his home of sin. The pronoun ties the land to the man addressed. One word holds noun and possessor.

  From: Righteous Company →

• ولا ترجع إلى أرضك فإنها أرض سوءٍ،

  And do not return to your land, for it is a land of evil.

  أَرْضُ — a land. This is the predicate of the emphatic clause — 'a land', heading a possessive 'land OF evil'. It is nominative (the particle bends the subject, not the predicate). As construct head it leans on the owner to come.

  From: Righteous Company →

• فَإِنَّهَا أَرْضُ سُوْءٍ،

  For it is an evil land.

  أرضُ — land. This noun is what is being said about 'it', its predicate in an 'it is X' statement, so it takes the subject-style (nominative) ending such predicates get. It also heads a possessive pairing with the next word, so it drops its own 'the', borrowing definiteness from the owner that follows.

  From: The Joy of Repentance →