الْوَرَقِthe paper

Example sentences

• تَبَدَّلَتْ أَوْرَاقُهُ عَنِ الْوَرَقِ

  Its leaves changed, becoming like paper.

  الْوَرَقِ — the paper. Carries al- ('the') and is the object of the preposition before it, so it takes the genitive ending. Read figuratively, 'paper', it conveys the dry, faded, brittle state the leaves turned to. The definiteness treats that paper-like condition as a known reference point.

  From: This World Is Short →

• فَجَعَلْتُ مِنَ الْاِسْتِعْدَادِ لِلِّقَائِهِمْ قِطَعَاتِ الْوَرَقِ، وَبُرِّيِ الْأَقْلَامِ، وَأَحْزِمَةَ الدَّفَاتِرِ؛

  So I made from the preparation for meeting them readying sheets of paper, sharpening the pens, and bundling the notebooks;

  الورق — paper. The owning second member of 'pieces of paper'. As the noun the previous word leans on, it sits in the genitive. The two nouns side by side build the 'of' link with no separate word for 'of'.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →