غَنَمِهِhis flock

Example sentences

• فَإِذَا أَنَا بِرَاعٍ مُقْبِلٍ بِغَنَمِهِ إِلَى الصَّخْرَةِ

  Then I came upon a shepherd approaching the rock with his flock.

  بِغَنَمِهِ — with his flock. Preposition 'with' fused onto a noun that itself carries the pronoun '-hi' (his), so one word means 'with his flock'. The preposition marks the flock as what the shepherd came along with, and the '-hi' ties the flock to him. The preposition governs the noun into the 'of'-style ending.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →