Arabic vocabulary
تَحْتَهُunder him in Arabic
تَحْتَهُ is how you say “under him” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ عَلَى الْبَدِيهَةِ أَفْضَلُ النَّاسِ مَنْ كَانَتْ بِنْتُهُ تَحْتَهُ،
He said on the spur of the moment: the best of people is the one whose daughter was under him.
تَحْتَهُ — under him. A place preposition, 'under', with a 'him' tail, used idiomatically for 'in his marriage/household'. One word holds the preposition and its object-pronoun; the figurative 'under him' means she was his wife.
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