لون البنطلون بهت.

pants

Breakdown of لون البنطلون بهت.

• لون: color
• بهت: to fade

Questions & Answers about لون البنطلون بهت.

Why is لون البنطلون translated as the color of the pants even though لون does not have ال-?

Because this is an iḍāfa construction (a noun + noun possession structure).

• لون = color
• البنطلون = the pants / the trousers

Together, لون البنطلون literally means color of the-pants, which in natural English is the color of the pants.

In Arabic, the first noun in an iḍāfa usually does not take ال-, even when the whole phrase is definite. The definiteness comes from the second noun.

So:

• لون بنطلون = a pants color / the color of some pants
• لون البنطلون = the color of the pants

What part of speech is بهت here? Is it a verb or an adjective?

Here, بهت is a past-tense verb meaning faded.

So the sentence structure is:

• لون البنطلون = the color of the pants
• بهت = faded

So the full sentence is literally The color of the pants faded.

A useful contrast is:

• لون البنطلون بهت = the pants’ color faded
• لون البنطلون باهت = the pants’ color is faded / pale

So:

• بهت = a verb, something happened
• باهت = an adjective, a description