حَنَظَلِ the colocynth in Arabic
حَنَظَلِ is how you say “the colocynth” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
الْأَدَبُ عِنْدَ الْأَحْمَقِ كَالْمَاءِ فِي أُصُولِ الْحَنَظَلِ،
Good manners in a fool are like water in the roots of the colocynth.
الْحَنَظَلِ the colocynth
This definite noun is the owning half of the 'roots of ...' pair, so it sits in the 'of' (genitive) form and names the plant whose roots are meant. Its case comes from the construct. It anchors the simile's image.
The English is machine-translated.

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