رِجْلleg

Example sentences

• فَمَسَحَ رِجْلَهُ بِرَأْسِهِ

  Then he wiped his leg with his head.

  رِجْلَهُ — leg of him. A noun 'leg' with a tail pronoun 'his' welded on, so 'his leg' is one word, and the attached 'his' points back to the man. It is the thing wiped, the object of the verb, so it takes the object case. The possessor rides as an ending rather than a separate word.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →

• وفى رواية فلما قعدت بين رجليها، قالت اتق الله ولا تفض الخاتم إلا بحقه، فانصرفت عنها وهى أحب الناس إلى وتركت الذهب الذى أعطيتها،

  In another version: 'When I sat between her legs, she said: Fear Allah and do not break the seal except with its due right. So I refrained from her though she was the most beloved to me, and I left the gold that I had given her.'

  رِجْلَيْهَا — her legs. This is a dual noun, Arabic's 'exactly two' form, carrying the possessor -ha ('her') and sitting in the 'of' (genitive) ending under 'between'. The dual ending supplies the two points 'between' requires, 'her two legs', in one word.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →