الْقَفْرِof the desert

Example sentences

• وَنَعْتَسِفُ مَفَازَةً الْقَفْرِ إِلَّا لِمُشَاهَدَةِ مَجْلِسٍ مِنْ مَجَالِسِهِ

  And we seek the desert's shelters only to behold one of his assemblies.

  الْقَفْرِ — of the desert. A noun made definite by al- 'the', in the genitive as the owner half of a possessive pairing with the noun before it: 'the wastes of the desert'. The two nouns sit directly together, and this genitive ending supplies the 'of' with no separate word.

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