تَخْلِيَshe relinquish

Example sentences

• فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

  I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

  تخلى — she relinquish. This is a present-tense verb pushed into the subjunctive by 'that' before it, with 'she' in the ending. The mood marks the yielding as the proposed term of the deal, an agreed possibility, not something already done.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →