مِحْجَنِهِhis staff

Example sentences

• فَتَخَلَّفْتُ فَنَزَلَ يَحْجُنُهُ بِمِحْجَنِهِ،

  So I lagged behind, and he dismounted and struck it with his staff.

  بِمِحْجَنِهِ — with his staff. Here bi- is the 'with' of instrument, naming the tool used to do the action: the staff. It governs the following noun into the genitive and also carries an attached -hi ('his') showing whose staff, so the one word bundles 'with his staff'.

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