حَبْوby crawling

Example sentences

• وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَحْبُو حَبْوًا،

  And among them are those who crawl.

  حَبْوًا — by crawling. An action-noun ('crawling') in the accusative, placed after its own verb to stress the manner, 'crawls a crawling'. This echoing accusative is how Arabic intensifies or pins down the way an action is done. The accusative ending marks the reinforcing role.

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