فِضَّةsilver

Example sentences

• زين للناس حب الشهوات من النساء والبنين والقناطير المقنطرة من الذهب والفضة والخيل المسومة والأنعام والحرث فللشهوات حيلة غيار،

  Beautified for people is the love of desires: from women and children, and heaped-up treasures of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle and tilled land; but desires have a deceptive strategy,

  وَالْفِضَّةِ — and the silver. The 'and' joins this to the previous material and keeps it in the same genitive case governed by the earlier 'of', so silver stands grammatically level with gold. Coordinated items in Arabic share the case of what they are joined to, which is why the ending matches.

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