بَطْنِيbelly

Example sentences

• وَإِنْ كُنْتُ لَأَشُدُّ الْحَجَرَ عَلَى بَطْنِي مِنَ الْجُوعِ،

  And if I were to press a stone against my belly from hunger,

  بَطْنِي — my belly. A body-part noun carrying the possessive 'my' at its end, so one word equals 'my belly'. It is governed by the 'against' before it and sits in the form a preposition requires. The attached pronoun is how Arabic shows ownership without a separate word like English 'my'.

  From: Generosity to the Poor →