بِهاwith her

Example sentences

• فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها

  I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.

  بِها — with her. This is the preposition bi- ('upon/to') fused with -ha ('her'), 'upon her'. It marks the cousin as the one the hardship struck, completing the verb 'befell'; one word carries preposition and pronoun.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →