الطَّعَامِthe food

Example sentences

• فَرَصَدْتُهُ فَجَاءَ يَحْثُو مِّنَ الطَّعَامِ فَأَخَذْتُهُ

  So I watched him. He came, scooping up from the food, so I seized him.

  الطَّعَامِ — the food. A definite noun with 'the' in the genitive, its ending set by the 'from' before it. It is the source the man scoops out of; the case ending, not position, marks its role as object of the preposition.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →