بُرِّيِsharpening

Example sentences

• فَجَعَلْتُ مِنَ الْاِسْتِعْدَادِ لِلِّقَائِهِمْ قِطَعَاتِ الْوَرَقِ، وَبُرِّيِ الْأَقْلَامِ، وَأَحْزِمَةَ الدَّفَاتِرِ؛

  So I made from the preparation for meeting them readying sheets of paper, sharpening the pens, and bundling the notebooks;

  وَبُرِّيِ — and sharpening. This token fuses the linking wa- with an action noun, 'and the sharpening of...'. The wa- adds a second preparation to the list, and the action noun heads an 'of' link to the pens that follow. It packages the act of sharpening as a thing in the list.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →