A new word or phrase from the Hans Wehr dictionary, every Wednesday.
أتى على الأخضر واليابس to destroy everything, wreak havoc
Root: ء-ت-ي
Page: 1303*
Example: “فَسُرْعانَ ما اِقْتَحَموا الحُدودَ وَأَتَوا على الأَخضَرِ واليابِس”
Translation: “in no time, they had stormed the borders and wreaked havoc”
Notes:
- You may have noticed that the phrase at the start of this sentence, سرعان ما, has featured in a few Wehr Wednesdays posts. We first encountered it in Wehr Wednesdays #1, then in Wehr Wednesdays #166 and Wehr Wednesdays #189!
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* The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th Edition
The Arabic Pages 