كَبِدِliver

Example sentences

• وَقَدْ كُتِبَتْ لَهُ رِسَالَةُ لَفْتَةِ الْكَبِدِ إِلَى نَصِيحَةِ الْوَلَدِ

  A letter was written to him, a heartfelt plea urging him to advise the son.

  الْكَبِدِ — the liver. This is the closing, owning member of the possessive chain begun two words back, so it sits in the 'of' (genitive) form and gives the whole chain its anchor. Grammatically it owns the phrase in front of it. Its role is to complete the figurative construct, not to be read literally.

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