كُتُبِthe books

Example sentences

• وَلَقَدْ نَظَرْتُ فِي ثَبْتِ الْكُتُبِ الْمَوْقُوفَةِ فِي الْمَدْرَسَةِ النِّظَامِيَّةِ؛

  Indeed, I examined the register of books endowed to the Nizamiyya school.

  الْكُتُبِ — the books. The owning second member of 'the register of the books'. It carries al- and takes the genitive, and it is what hands definiteness up to the register in front of it. It names the contents the register catalogues.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →

• فَاشْتَغَلَ هَذَا بِكُتُبِ الْفَلَاسِفَةِ،

  This man busied himself with the books of the philosophers.

  بِكُتُبِ — with books of. A preposition fixed to the front of a plural noun, where the preposition marks what he busied himself WITH and forces the 'of' (genitive) form. That noun also heads an ownership pair with the word after it. So one unit attaches the preposition and opens a possessive chain.

  From: Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow →