فَخِذthighs

Example sentences

• فَأَسْنَدَ رُكْبَتَيْهِ إلَى رُكْبَتَيْهِ، وَوَضَعَ كَفَّيْهِ عَلَى فَخِذَيْهِ، وَقَالَ يَا مُحَمَّدُ أَخْبِرْنِي عَنْ الْإِسْلَامِ

  He rested his knees against his knees and placed his hands on his thighs, and said: 'O Muhammad, tell me about Islam.'

  فَخِذَيْهِ — his thighs. Again the dual, 'two thighs', with an attached -hi (his); here the -hi points to the stranger himself, his own thighs. The dual folds 'two' into the noun's ending.

  From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →