Arabic vocabulary
تَحْتَهُunder him
How to say “under him” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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