طِفْلُthe one led by desire

Example sentences

• غَيْرُ أَنَّهُ زَيْنُهَا وَطِفْلُ الْهَوَى ذُو إِغْتِرَارٍ،

  Except that he adorned it, and the one carried away by desire was full of self-deception.

  وَطِفْلُ — and the one led by desire. The connector wa- ('and') fused onto a noun literally 'child', used figuratively for one ruled by something. It heads a possessive link with the next word — 'child of desire' — so it surrenders its own 'the' and forces the following noun into the genitive. The wa- starts a fresh coordinate subject.

  From: This World Is Short →