Arabic vocabulary
بِهَمْسِby a light brush in Arabic
بِهَمْسِ is how you say “by a light brush” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَلَمَّا أَحَسَّ بِهَمْسِ قَدَمِيِ،
So when he felt the light brush of my foot,
بِهَمْسِ — by a light brush. A 'bi-' prefix fronts the noun to mark what was sensed, the faint sound, opening an 'of' pairing with the word that follows. The prefix governs the noun into the dependent form, so it sets up 'at the brush of...'.
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