شَيْخُوخَةold age

Example sentences

• تَعَرَّضَ إِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ فِي شَيْخُوخَتِهِ لِمِحْنَةٍ قَاسِيَةٍ

  In his old age, Ibn al-Jawzi was subjected to a severe trial.

  شَيْخُوخَتِهِ — his old age. A noun 'old age' with a 'his' tag suffixed, packing the possessor into the word — 'his old age' in one chunk. It sits in the genitive because the 'in' preposition governs it, and the suffix tells us whose old age.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →