قِطَعَاتِreadying sheets

Example sentences

• فَجَعَلْتُ مِنَ الْاِسْتِعْدَادِ لِلِّقَائِهِمْ قِطَعَاتِ الْوَرَقِ، وَبُرِّيِ الْأَقْلَامِ، وَأَحْزِمَةَ الدَّفَاتِرِ؛

  So I made from the preparation for meeting them readying sheets of paper, sharpening the pens, and bundling the notebooks;

  قطع — readying sheets. A plural noun heading an 'of' pairing with the following word: 'pieces of...'. As the first member it leans on that noun for its full sense and drops its own 'the'. It is the first concrete item in the list of preparations.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →