Arabic vocabulary
بِنَفْسِهِby himself
How to say “by himself” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَأَقَامَ بِوَاسِطِ خَمْسِ سِنِينَ يَخْدِمُ نَفْسَهُ بِنَفْسِهِ،
He remained for five years, attending to his own needs by himself.
بنفسه — by himself. The preposition bi- ('by/with') joined to 'self' plus -hi ('his own'). This repeats the 'self' word, now governed by bi-, to drive home that he did it unaided: by his very own self. The doubling is an emphasis device, stressing that no one else helped.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →
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