لَحْمٍmeat in Arabic

Example sentences

• قَالُوا عَلَى لَحْمٍ

  They said, "On meat."

  لَحْمٍ — meat. An indefinite noun, 'meat', and its -in ending marks it as both unspecified, some meat, and governed by the preceding preposition into the genitive. The ending carries 'some, any' and the prepositional role together.

  From: The Martyr's Reward →

• قَالَ عَلَىٰ أَيِّ لَحْمٍ

  He said, "On what meat?"

  لَحْمٍ — meat. An indefinite noun, 'meat', completing the 'which meat' phrase; as the owned second half it takes the genitive shape forced by the question word and the preposition. It names the substance whose identity is being pressed.

  From: The Martyr's Reward →