عَنِّيfrom me

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• فَإِذَا قَالَ لَكَ ذَلِكَ فَقُلْ لَهُ اِحْبِسْ عَنِّي الْمَدَّ

  So if he says that to you, say to him, "Hold back the tide from me."

  عَنِّي — from me. The preposition 'an' (from / away from) fused with the first-person pronoun '-i' (me), the 'n' doubling at the join: 'from me'. It marks the speaker as the one the tide is to be kept away from. One fused word covers 'from me'.

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• قَالَ فَاِحْبِسْ عَنِّي الْمَدَّ

  He said, "Then hold the tide back from me."

  عَنِّي — from me. The preposition 'an' (from) fused with the first-person pronoun '-i' (me), the 'n' doubling at the join: 'from me'. It marks the speaker as the one the tide is to be kept away from. One fused word covers 'from me'.

  From: Luqman's Wisdom and Trial →