تَنَاوَلَتْtook hold of

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 →