Arabic-L:LING:meaning of marbiT-u l-faras

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Date: 18 Jul 2008
From:Sana N Hilmi <shilmi at gmu.edu>
Subject:meaning of marbiT-u l-faras

I am not sure,
But, Marbat is where the tie is. If the mare is tied up on the tree,  
the tree is (marbat).
If I'm looking for your horse, and I don't know how it looks like, you  
need to tell me where it is tied on. Say it is a tree, it would be  
easier for me to detect the tree rather than to look for the horse,  
the rope and the tie randomly.
Basically that is like a landmark. You'll get the mare when you know  
the point/place where you leave it.
I think an example would be, there are less Americans using cars these  
days, less buying cars, and they're more conservatives. All that leads  
to one point, Marbat al-faras, the gasoline is very expensive ;)


I like to hear others,

Miss Sana Hilmi, M.A.
Arabic Professor and Coordinator
Modern and Classical Languages
George Mason University
4400 University Drive, MS 3E5
Fairfax, VA 22030
Fax: 703-993-1245

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Date: 18 Jul 2008
From:"hussein hiyassat" <hussein.hiyassat at undp.org>
Subject:meaning of marbiT-u l-faras


قد يكون العلاقة هي ان مبط الفرس يكون في  
منتصف او بؤرة الدائرة التي يتحرك بها  
الفرس اذا كان الفرس مربوطاً حيث يتحرك  
ضمن دائرة مركزها المربط وشعاعها طول  
الحبل
والله أعلم

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Date: 18 Jul 2008
From:ali zayed <alidzayed at yahoo.com>
Subject:meaning of marbiT-u l-faras

Hi All

simply when we said " marbatu lfarasi " we use it to focus on the main  
point , marbat means the plase where i tie any thing and here the "  
faras " so " stopping " any moving object that means i want to stop  
here we reached the main point and its better to end every thing at  
this point as we find it suitable plase to tie our faras here or to  
make him rest here

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