خِطَامٌa bridle in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَإِنْ لَمْ يَكُنْ لِلْمَطِيَّهِ خِطَامٌ وَلَا زِمَامٌ شَرِدَتْ فِي كُلِّ مَذْهَبٍ

  If the mount had neither a bridle nor a rein, it ran off in every direction.

  خِطَامٌ — a bridle. An indefinite noun ('a bridle') standing as the delayed subject of 'was not' ('there was not for it a bridle'). Its indefiniteness fits the existence-denial: not any bridle.

  From: Patience and the Human Self →