اِنْتِقَالِtransition

Example sentences

• وَقَصْرُ طُولِ النَّهَى، وَلَوْ فَكَّكَهَا بِالِانْتِقَالِ مِنْ حَالٍ إِلَى حَالٍ لَتَنَفُّسٌ عَنْهَا ضِيقُ العُقْدَةِ،

  He shortened the duration of his restraint; had he loosened it by shifting from one state to another, relief from the tightness of the knot would have followed.

  بِالِانْتِقَالِ — by the transition. One unit fusing a preposition 'by means of / through' onto a definite noun. It marks the method of the loosening, 'by the shifting', so the bi- assigns the instrument role and the al- makes the means a specific known one.

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