تَسْخِينِheating / warming

Example sentences

• وَحَكَى غَيْرُ الْمَأْمُونِ أَنَّ السَّجَّانُ فَطِنَ لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ بِالْمِصْبَاحِ فِي تَسْخِينِ الْمَاءِ،

  And another narrator, not al-Ma'mun, reported that the jailer noticed his staying close by the lamp in heating the water.

  تَسْخِينِ — heating. This is a verbal noun, an action turned into a noun, here 'the heating', and after the 'in' it sits in the genitive. Built on a causative pattern, it means actively making something hot, not just being warm. As an action-noun it still governs its own object, the next word.

  From: A Son Protecting His Father →