الْفِضَّةِthe silver

Example sentences

• زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ وَالْبَنِينَ وَالْقَنَاطِيرِ الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ

  People were made to find attractive the love of desires: women and sons, and the piled-up heaps of gold and silver.

  وَالْفِضَّةِ — and the silver. The connector wa- ('and') fused onto a noun with al- ('the'), coordinating it with gold as the second material. The same material preposition governs both, so this one too sits in the genitive. The wa- simply pairs silver with gold inside the one phrase.

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