يَدَيَّmy two hands

Example sentences

• وَسَوَّيْتُ لِلْنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَكَانًا بِيَدَيَّ يَنَامُ عَلَيْهِ،

  And I smoothed out a place with my two hands for the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, to sleep on it.

  بِيَدَيَّ — with my two hands. A rich chunk: the preposition 'with' fused onto a dual noun 'two hands' that itself carries the pronoun '-ya' (my). The dual is Arabic's dedicated 'exactly two' shape, folding the count into the noun's ending where English needs a separate 'two'. So one word means 'with my two hands'.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →