Tafas (an Arab guide)- Here…You may drink…One cup. Lawrence- You do not drink? Tafas- No. Lawrence (pouring the cup back into the canteen)- I’ll drink when you do. Tafas- I am Bedu.
-Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
The triliteral root ‘-T-SH, whose Form I verb ‘Atisha means, He was Thirsty, generates the Form VI verb Ta’ātashā that Lane gives as, They Vied, One with the Other, in Endeavoring to Bear Thirst. This happens a lot on the Darb, and it was a pity I didn’t know that word when KhairAllah offered me water from his Qirba and himself chose not to drink. I would have put it in the Negative, Māta’ātashāsh, which I’d have really meant as, Good, More for me!