الأَرْضَthe earth

Example sentences

• كَدْتَ تُحْرِقُ الْأَرْضَ وَمَا عَلَيْهَا بِنَارِكَ،

  You almost burned the earth and what is on it with your fire.

  الأَرْضِ — the earth. A definite noun marked by al-, the thing nearly burnt, the object of the burning verb. It takes the accusative ending that marks a direct object. The al- presents it as the whole, known earth, magnifying the rebuke: not some patch of ground but the world itself.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →