عِيَالِهِhis dependents

Example sentences

• وَاحْتَمَلَ بِثِقْلِهِ وَعِيَالِهِ فَتَحَوَّلَ عَنْهُمْ

  And he bore it, with its weight and his dependents, then he turned away from them.

  وَعِيَالِهِ — and his dependents. A coordinating wa- ('and') on a noun carrying -hi 'his', still in the genitive under the same bi- as the word before. The wa- adds the dependents to the load he carried; the 'his' marks them as his.

  From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →