طِفْلًاa child

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَ طِفْلًا يَتَنَقَّلُ مِنْ خَرْقِ الْقِمَاطِ إِلَى خَزِّ الْخَزُوزِ،

  Then he brought out a child who moved from the rags of the swaddling cloth into the small chest.

  طِفْلًا — a child. An indefinite noun 'a child', the direct object of 'brought out', hence accusative (the audible -an tanween). It receives the verb's action directly; a describing present-tense clause will follow to characterise the child.

  From: On Birth and Its Timing →