A new word or phrase from the Hans Wehr dictionary, every Wednesday. يمم وجهه شطر (wajhahū šaṭra) to turn or face toward Root: ي-م-م Page: 1299* Example: “يَمَّمَ وَجْهَهُ شَطْرَ الشَّرْقِ وَشَرَعَ في رِحلَتِهِ الَّتي سَتَأخُذُهُ إلى سُهولِ مُنغوليا” Translation: “he turned towards the east and set off on his journey that would take him…
غائِب root: غ-ي-ب / form I active participle / definition: absent, third person (gramm.) Writing about yourself in the third person always feels strange. And when I think of “third person”, I always think of Attila İlhan’s poem and then I feel even stranger. But I had to set that strangeness aside and rewrite my…
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