ثَدْيٌbreast in Arabic

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ أَقْبَلَ عَلَى ثَدْيِهَا يَمَصُّهُ

  Then he leaned toward her breast and sucked it.

  ثَدْيِهَا — her breast. The breast he turned to, governed by 'toward' and so in the genitive, with '-ha' (her) attached pointing back to the mother. The suffix marks whose breast, and the case marks it as governed by the preposition.

  From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →

• ثُمَّ مَرَّ بِأَمَةٍ فَقَالَتْ اللَّهُمَّ لَا تَجْعَلْ إِبْنِي مِثْلَ هَذِهِ فَتَرَكَ ثَدْيَهَا

  Then he passed by a slave-girl, and she said, "O God, do not make my son like this." Then he left her breast.

  ثَدْيَهَا — her breast. What the baby released -- her breast -- object of 'left', with '-ha' (her) attached pointing to the mother. The suffix fixes whose breast, the ending marks it as the thing let go.

  From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →