Arabic vocabulary
مُقْبِلٍapproaching in Arabic
مُقْبِلٍ is how you say “approaching” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَإِذَا أَنَا بِرَاعٍ مُقْبِلٍ بِغَنَمِهِ إِلَى الصَّخْرَةِ
Then I came upon a shepherd approaching the rock with his flock.
مُقْبِلٍ — approaching. A doer-noun built from a verb, describing the shepherd as 'approaching', and it agrees with that shepherd in being indefinite, shown by its '-in' tail. Such active descriptions follow their noun and copy its definiteness. It tells you what the shepherd was in the act of doing.
From: A Night with the Prophet →
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