وَتَعْطُو بِرَخْصٍ غَيْرِ شَثْنٍ كَأَنَّهُ
أَسَارِيعُ ظَبْيٍ أَوْ مَسَاوِيكُ إِسْحِلِ
“She reaches with a soft, non-coarse hand, as though its fingers were slender pale creatures of a sandy locality or smooth tooth-cleaning twigs from the isḥil tree.”
Taʿṭū describes reaching out or taking something. Bi-rakhṣin ghayri shathn emphasizes suppleness and an absence of coarseness. Two comparators follow: asārīʿ ẓaby and masāwīk isḥil, each stressing a delicate, slender shape.
The commentary identifies ẓaby here as a particular place-name. Automatically reading it as the common noun “gazelle” would distort this distinctive comparison.