جُلَسَاءُcompanions

Example sentences

• إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ يَضْحَكُ بِهَا جُلَسَاؤُهُ يَهْوِي بِهَا أَبْعَدَ مِنَ الثَّرَيَّا

  Indeed, a man speaks a word that makes his companions laugh by it, and by it he sinks farther than the Pleiades.

  جُلَسَاؤُهُ — his companions. An irregular plural ('seated-companions') ending in -hu 'his', so it fuses the noun with its owner. The -hu points back to the man, and the noun stands as the doer of the laughing, 'his companions', the ones who laugh.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →