تَنَفُّسٌrelief

Example sentences

• وَقَصْرُ طُولِ النَّهَى، وَلَوْ فَكَّكَهَا بِالِانْتِقَالِ مِنْ حَالٍ إِلَى حَالٍ لَتَنَفُّسٌ عَنْهَا ضِيقُ العُقْدَةِ،

  He shortened the duration of his restraint; had he loosened it by shifting from one state to another, relief from the tightness of the knot would have followed.

  لَتَنَفُّسٌ — indeed a relief. A front emphatic 'la-', the 'surely / indeed' marker that introduces the result of the counterfactual, fused onto a noun built from a verb ('a breathing, relief'). The la- stamps the outcome as the emphatic answer to the earlier 'had he...' clause.

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