مَحْرُوقِburnt

Example sentences

• فَخَرَجَتْ إِلَى التَّنُّورِ فَإِذَا هِيَ كَالْرَّغِيفِ الْمَحْرُوقِ

  She went out to the oven, and behold, she was like a burnt loaf.

  الْمَحْرُوقِ — the burnt. This is a passive-participle, a 'having-been-burnt' descriptive word, here describing the loaf. It agrees with that noun and shares its genitive case, the ending matching because Arabic adjectives copy the case, gender, and definiteness of the noun they describe. So its form is dictated by the loaf it qualifies, completing the grim simile.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →