الْقِمَاطِthe swaddling cloth

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَ طِفْلًا يَتَنَقَّلُ مِنْ خَرْقِ الْقِمَاطِ إِلَى خَزِّ الْخَزُوزِ،

  Then he brought out a child who moved from the rags of the swaddling cloth into the small chest.

  الْقِمَاطِ — the swaddling cloth. The completing half of 'the rags of the swaddling cloth', a definite noun ('al-'). It stands in the genitive as the owning second term of that 'of' pairing, naming what the rags belong to.

  From: On Birth and Its Timing →