قَنَاطِيرٌpiled-up loads

Example sentences

• وَالْقَنَاطِيرُ الْمُقَنْطَرَةُ وَمَا اِجْتَمَعَتْ إِلَّا بِأَوْزَارٍ،

  And the piled-up loads, and they did not come together except by sins,

  وَالْقَنَاطِيرُ — and the piled-up loads. The connector wa- ('and') fused onto a noun carrying al- ('the'), resuming the catalogue of worldly things — 'and the heaped loads'. The wa- coordinates this with earlier listed items. The plural is an irregular reshaped form, and the article marks the heaps as specific.

  From: This World Is Short →