التَّرَابِthe earth

Example sentences

• وَهُوَ بَاقٌ وَصَاحِبُهُ مُوَسَّدٌ تَحْتَ التَّرَابِ

  And it endures, while its owner lies buried beneath the earth.

  التَّرَابِ — the earth. A definite noun in the after-preposition case, governed by 'beneath' before it. Its case ending is dictated entirely by that preposition, which is why it wears the 'of'-type vowel even though in English it is just the object of 'beneath'.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →