يَحْجُنُهُhe strikes it

Example sentences

• فَتَخَلَّفْتُ فَنَزَلَ يَحْجُنُهُ بِمِحْجَنِهِ،

  So I lagged behind, and he dismounted and struck it with his staff.

  يَحْجُنُهُ — he strikes it. This is a present-shape verb 'he strikes/prods' used to paint the ongoing scene, with an attached -hu ('it') as its object. That 'it' points back to the camel mentioned earlier, not to any nearer noun, so tracking the real target is part of reading it.

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