حَرْثtilled land

Example sentences

• زين للناس حب الشهوات من النساء والبنين والقناطير المقنطرة من الذهب والفضة والخيل المسومة والأنعام والحرث فللشهوات حيلة غيار،

  Beautified for people is the love of desires: from women and children, and heaped-up treasures of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle and tilled land; but desires have a deceptive strategy,

  وَالْحَرْثِ — and the tilled land. Joined by 'and' as the final item, this keeps the genitive shared by the whole list. Arabic closes an itemized series this way, with each member linked by 'and' and carrying the same ending, so the reader sees they all belong to one grammatical group.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →

• والحرث مخضرًا ومصفرًا مختلف الألوان والأزهار،

  And the tilled land, green and yellow, with various colors and flowers,

  وَالْحَرْثُ — And the tilled land. The 'and' brings in the final catalogue item, the tilled land, and the 'the' marks it as the known type. Here the noun is the topic that the following color words describe, so it is set up as what the rest of the line is about.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →