LessonsLaff wa Nashr: Ordered, Unordered, Explicit and Collective FormsQuiz

«وأنت حقف وغصن وغزال لحظا وقدا وردفا»
You resemble a gazelle in your gaze, a branch in your figure, and a curved sand-dune in the contours of your body.

The initial images are ḥiqf (a curved dune), ghuṣn (a branch), and ghazāl (a gazelle). They are followed by laḥẓ (gaze), qadd (figure), and ridf (rear contour).

The descriptions do not belong to the adjacent nouns by position. Each relates to the image with which it is conventionally associated. In this instance the nashr reverses the order of the laff.

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A poetic example with three image sources

Laff wa Nashr: Ordered, Unordered, Explicit and Collective Forms

«وأنت حقف وغصن وغزال لحظا وقدا وردفا»
You resemble a gazelle in your gaze, a branch in your figure, and a curved sand-dune in the contours of your body.

The initial images are ḥiqf (a curved dune), ghuṣn (a branch), and ghazāl (a gazelle). They are followed by laḥẓ (gaze), qadd (figure), and ridf (rear contour).

The descriptions do not belong to the adjacent nouns by position. Each relates to the image with which it is conventionally associated. In this instance the nashr reverses the order of the laff.