حَفَّتْsurround

Example sentences

• وَ حَفَّتهُمُ المَلاَئِكَة،

  and the angels surround them,

  وَحَفَّتْهُمُ — and surround them. Again the verb comes first and takes a feminine ending to agree with the doer that follows, 'the angels.' The tail '-hum' is the object — the ones surrounded — attached straight onto the verb with nothing in between, which is how Arabic carries 'them' without a separate word.

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