نَفْسِهاher own person

Example sentences

• 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 →

• 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 →