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الْوَرَقِ the paper in Arabic

الْوَرَقِ is how you say “the paper” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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

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More example sentences

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'.

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