نَبَاتِplant

Example sentences

• فسر الرجع به ومقابلته بصدع الأرض عن النبات

  The returning was interpreted as such, and its counterpart is the earth's splitting with plants.

  النَّبَاتِ — plants. A noun made definite by al- (the), naming the plants as a known category. Governed by the preposition before it, it sits in the genitive and completes the idea that the earth splits open to bring these forth.

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• وفسر الصدع بالنبات، لأنه يصدع الأرض أي يشقها

  The splitting was interpreted as the plants, for it splits the earth, meaning it breaks through it.

  بِالنَّبَاتِ — as the plants. A preposition bi- fused with the definite noun 'the plants', so one chunk means 'as / by the plants'. The bi- here marks what the splitting is being equated with, and it forces the genitive ending; the al- makes the plants a known category.

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• فأقسم سبحانه بالسماء ذات المطر والأرض ذات النبات

  Then Allah swore by the sky with its rain and the earth with its plants.

  النَّبَاتِ — plants. A noun made definite by al-, naming the plants as a known thing, and the owned second noun of the pairing with the 'possessor of' word before it: together 'the earth that has the plants'. Its genitive ending marks it as that owned noun.

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