شِمَالَleft hand

Example sentences

• فَنَفَحَ فِيهِ يَمِينَهُ وَشِمَالَهُ وَبَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ وَوَرَاءَهُ،

  Then he breathed into it with his right hand, his left hand, between his hands, and behind it.

  وَشِمَالَهُ — and his left hand. The connector wa- joins this to the list, on a noun 'his left side' with a 'his' ending. Together with its mates it builds the sweep of directions, and the suffix again pins the side to the doer.

  From: Paradise for the Sincere →