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تَنَاوَلَتْ took hold of in Arabic

تَنَاوَلَتْ is how you say “took hold of” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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