سَاقَيْهِhis two legs

Example sentences

• وَتَوَسَّطَ قُفَّهَا، وَكَشَفَ عَنْ سَاقَيْهِ وَدَلَّاهُمَا فِي الْبِئْرِ،

  And he placed his cloak in the middle, and uncovered from his two legs, and let them both hang down in the well.

  سَاقَيْهِ — his two legs. This is the dual - Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' form, a category English lacks - so the noun's own ending already counts two, with no separate word for 'two' needed. Riding on the end is an attached 'his', naming the owner, so a single word packs the body-part, the count of two, and the possessor together.

  From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →

• كَمَا صَنَعَ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَكَشَفَ عَنْ سَاقَيْهِ،

  as the Prophet did, and he uncovered his two legs,

  سَاقَيْهِ — his two legs. This is the dual - Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' form, a category English lacks - so the noun's own ending already counts two, with no separate word for 'two' needed. Riding on the end is an attached 'his', naming the owner, so a single word packs the body-part, the count of two, and the possessor together.

  From: Three Companions Promised Paradise →