Arabic vocabulary
ظَهْرَيَّmy two backs in Arabic
ظَهْرَيَّ is how you say “my two backs” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَأَنَّهَا لَا تَقْضِي حَاجَتَهَا إِلَّا وَظَهْرَيَّ مَطِيَّةٍ لَهَا،
and that she does not meet her needs except by using my back as her mount.
وَظَهْرَيَّ — and my two backs. The front wa- opens the circumstantial 'while / with', framing a state that accompanies the exception, and the noun under it carries the 'my' pronoun. So it sets up 'with my back as her mount'. This 'while...' framing is how Arabic marks the condition under which she copes.
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