Arabic vocabulary
تَنَاوَلَتْtook hold of in Arabic
تَنَاوَلَتْ is how you say “took hold of” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
حَتَّى تَنَاوَلَتْ عَائِشَةُ وَهِيَ قَاعِدَةٌ،
until she took hold of Aisha while she was sitting,
تَنَاوَلَتْ — took hold of. A past-tense verb carrying its own subject inside it: the '-at' ending fixes the doer as a single female 'she', so no separate pronoun is needed. The verb already bundles who-did-it with what-was-done, which is why one Arabic word covers what English splits into 'she' plus the verb.
From: Wives of the Prophet →
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