حُمُرِred

Example sentences

• أَحْبُّ إِلَيَّ مِنْ حُمُرِ النِعَمِ

  She is dearer to me than the red camels.

  حُمُرِ — red. This is a broken-plural color adjective, 'red', describing the prized camels, and it opens an owner-and-owned pairing with the camels-word after it. As the first half it sits in the genitive because the comparison 'than' before it governs it. Arabic forms many plurals by reshaping the word internally rather than adding an ending, which is why this looks unlike its singular.

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