بُنَيِّهِhis little son

Example sentences

• قَالَ فَدَعَا أَصْغَرَ بُنَيِّهِ

  He said, then he called his youngest son.

  بُنَيِّهِ — his little son. A noun in the affectionate 'little' shape with -hi fixing 'his' to it; as the tail of the 'of' pairing it sits in the genitive. The 'his' points back to the father, marking the boy as his.

  From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →

• قَامَ إِلَى أَصْغَرِ بُنَيِّهِ فَلَطَمَنِي

  He went up to the youngest of his sons and struck me.

  بُنَيِّهِ — of his sons. A noun in the affectionate 'little' shape with -hi fixing 'his', completing the 'of' pairing and so sitting in the genitive. The 'his' points back to the father, marking the boy as his.

  From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →