ظَاهِرَهُhis outward appearance

Example sentences

• وَلَكِنَّكُمْ مِمَّنْ قُبِحَ بَاطِنُهُ فَرَأَى ظَاهِرَهُ،

  But you are among those whose inward is ugly, so he displayed his outward appearance.

  ظَاهِرَهُ — his outward appearance. A noun ending in -hu 'his', so it fuses 'outer appearance' with its owner. The -hu again points back to the same person, and the noun stands as the receiver-of-the-action of the verb before it, the thing shown.

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