مُسْتَغِيثًاcalling for help

Example sentences

• صَاحَ مُسْتَغِيثًا بِهِمْ تَرَى هَذَا بِأَيِّ ذَنْبٍ؟

  Someone calling to them for help cried out: "Do you see this? For what sin?!"

  مُسْتَغِيثًا — calling for help. An active participle, an '-er/-ing' word built from a verb, describing how the crying was done: 'calling for help'. It sits in the accusative as a state-describing add-on, the slot Arabic uses to say 'he cried out while [in such a state]'. It paints the manner of the main verb rather than naming a new action.

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