رَاحِلَتَيَّmy two mounts

Example sentences

• قَالَ فَخُذْ بِأَبِي أَنْتَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ إِحْدَى رَاحِلَتَيَّ هَاتَيْنِ

  He said, "By my father, O Messenger of Allah, take one of my two mounts."

  رَاحِلَتَىَّ — my two mounts. This is the dual, Arabic's 'exactly two' form, with 'my' fused on as a possessor; the ending folds in both the count of two and the possessive, so one word says 'my two mounts'. As the owned-by half of 'one of ...' it sits in the genitive, the pair giving 'one of my two mounts'.

  From: The Secret Migration →