Hal introduces the question. Tuballighannī carries an emphatic nūn, intensifying the wish; -nī denotes the speaker as object, and dārahā specifies the destination.
Maḥrūm al-sharāb is not simply an ordinary person deprived of water; it belongs to camel-and-milk idiom. Muṣarram evokes cutting off or withholding milk. The immediate pastoral context controls the meaning of these expressions.
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ʿAntarah ibn Shaddād: Travel, Camel Gait and Ostrich Imagery (verses 20–30)
Hal introduces the question. Tuballighannī carries an emphatic nūn, intensifying the wish; -nī denotes the speaker as object, and dārahā specifies the destination.
Maḥrūm al-sharāb is not simply an ordinary person deprived of water; it belongs to camel-and-milk idiom. Muṣarram evokes cutting off or withholding milk. The immediate pastoral context controls the meaning of these expressions.