ثَمِلْتُI became intoxicated

Example sentences

• فَشَرِبْتُ يَوْمًا عِنْدَ خِدْنِ لَيِّ حَتَّى ثَمِلْتُ وَزَالَ عَقْلِي،

  One day I drank at a man's house until I became intoxicated and my mind left me.

  ثَمِلْتُ — I became intoxicated. A past-tense verb with the -tu ending locking in 'I' as the subject. It sits as the goal-clause introduced by 'until', so it reads as the state finally arrived at, the point the earlier drinking built up to. The first-person ending keeps the whole confession anchored in the narrator's own voice.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →