أَنِيَابِهِhis canine teeth

Example sentences

• وَجَعَلْتُ أَنْظُرُ إِلَى أَنِيَابِهِ

  And I began to look at his canine teeth.

  أَنِيَابِهِ — his canine teeth. This is a plural noun carrying an owner-ending 'his', so one word equals 'his eye-teeth', and it sits in the genitive forced by the preposition 'at'. The attached possessor ties the teeth to the man laughing. Arabic glues the owner onto the noun rather than using a separate word.

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