الْمُقَنْطَرَةِpiled-up

Example sentences

• زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ

  People were made to find attractive the love of desires: women and sons, and the piled-up heaps of gold and silver.

  الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ — the piled-up. Carries al- ('the') and is a describing word modifying the heaps before it — 'the piled-up'. An Arabic adjective trails its noun and copies its definiteness and case, which is why this one is definite and genitive to match. It intensifies the picture of accumulation.

  From: This World Is Short →