اِرْتِفَاقِهِhis staying close

Example sentences

• وَحَكَى غَيْرُ الْمَأْمُونِ أَنَّ السَّجَّانُ فَطِنَ لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ بِالْمِصْبَاحِ فِي تَسْخِينِ الْمَاءِ،

  And another narrator, not al-Ma'mun, reported that the jailer noticed his staying close by the lamp in heating the water.

  لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ — for his staying close. The li- here marks the thing noticed, the 'to / regarding' that points at the object of awareness, and it sits before a verbal-noun with the 'his' pronoun on its end. So the word stacks a preposition, an action-noun, and its owner together. It names what the jailer caught on to: his making use of the lamp.

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