Arabic vocabulary
مَرَاتِعِ is how you say “pastures” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
كَمَا يَذُودُ الرَّاعِيُ الشَّفِيقُ غَنَمَهُ عَنْ مَرَاتِعِ الْهَلَكَةِ
Just as the compassionate shepherd wards his flock away from pastures of destruction.
مَرَاتِعِ — pastures. This is a plural noun, governed by the 'away from' before it and so in the governed form. It heads a possessive pairing with 'destruction' that follows, meaning 'pastures of...'. As the front half of that pairing it takes its definiteness from the owning noun after it.
From: Under God's Shield →OpenArabic teaches words like مَرَاتِعِ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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