أَحْشَاءُentrails

Example sentences

• فَأَخَذَهُ مَعَهُ فِي فِرَاشِهِ وَأَلْصَقَهُ بِأَحْشَائِهِ حَتَّى أَصْبَحَ وَقَدْ فَتَرَ الْمَاءُ

  So he took it with him in his bed and pressed it against his entrails until it became morning and the water had cooled.

  بِأَحْشَائِهِ — against his entrails. The bi- here means 'against / to', marking where he pressed the flask, and it carries the 'his' pronoun, so the word reads 'against his insides'. The body-noun wears the suffix as its owner and sits in the genitive the preposition requires. It names the spot he held the warm flask close to.

  From: A Son Protecting His Father →