جَمَلٌcamel in Arabic

Example sentences

• قُلْتُ أَبْطَأَ عَلَيَّ جَمَلِي وَأَعْيَا،

  I said, "My camel slowed down on me and became exhausted."

  جَمَلِي — my camel. This noun ends in -i ('my'), fusing the owner onto the word, and it is the doer of the verb 'slowed' that came earlier. So it names whose camel lagged, arriving after its verb in the usual Arabic order.

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