زِينَةٌadornment

Example sentences

• لَا تَعْجَبَنَّكُمَا زِينَتُهُ وَلَا مَا مُتِّعَ بِهِ،

  Do not let its adornment, nor what you have been given of it, amaze you two.

  زِينَتُهُ — its adornment. This noun has -hu, the 'its' possessor, fused to its end, pointing back to the world being warned against, so one word means 'its adornment'. Within the prohibition it is the thing doing the amazing, the grammatical subject of the verb. The possessor reaches back to an earlier referent, not the nearest noun.

  From: Under God's Shield →