نِطَاقgirdle

Example sentences

• وَلِذَلِكَ كَانَتْ تُسَمَّى ذَاتَ النِّطَاقِ،

  And for that reason she was called She of the Girdle,

  النِّطَاقِ — the girdle. A noun made specific by al-, 'the girdle', as the owning half of the 'She of ...' epithet; it closes the pair and so takes the genitive (the tail kasra). The doubled sound at the start is al- blending into the noun's first letter, a sound-rule, not a separate mark.

  From: The Secret Migration →