الْأَقْلَامِthe pens

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;

  الأَقْلَامِ — the pens. A definite plural noun with al-, the owned member completing 'the sharpening of the pens'. As the second member of that pairing it sits in the genitive. It names what was sharpened.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →