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نَفْسِها her own person in Arabic

نَفْسِها is how you say “her own person” in Arabic.

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فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

نَفْسِها her own person

This is a self-word ('self/person') carrying the possessor -ha ('her'), sitting in the 'of' (genitive) ending under the preposition. It works reflexively, marking that what he sought concerned her own person; the suffix bundles 'her' onto it.

From Three Men Saved by Sincerity

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فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

نَفَسِها her self

This is a self-word ('self/person') with the possessor -ha ('her') in the 'of' (genitive) ending under 'between'. It marks her own person as the second party of the 'between me and her self' frame, closing what the agreement concerned.

From Three Men Saved by Sincerity

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