قَوْلِهَاwhat she said

Example sentences

• فَغَضِبْتُ لِقَوْلِهَا وَحَمَلْتُهَا بِسُكْرَى وَرَمَيْتُ بِهَا فِي التَّنُّورِ

  I became angry at what she said, I carried her while she was intoxicated, and I threw her into the oven.

  لِقَوْلِهَا — because of what she said. This bundles the preposition li- ('for, at, because of') with a noun carrying the attached 'her', giving 'at what she said'. Here li- marks the cause of the anger; it governs the following noun in the genitive. The '-ha' suffix ties the provocation specifically to her speech.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →

• فَأَكَلَتْ حَوَّاءُ عَنْ قَوْلِهَا وَأَطْعَمَتْ آدَمَ،

  Eve ate because of the serpent's words, and she fed Adam.

  قَوْلِهَا — words of her. A noun 'speech/words' with the attached possessor '-ha' = 'her/its', pointing back to the serpent. As the object of the causal 'because of' it stands in the genitive; the suffix folds the owner onto the noun: 'her words'.

  From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →