تَضَاغَىcry

Example sentences

• فلبثت والقدح على يدى أنتظر استيقاظهما حتى برق الفجر والصبية يتضاغون عند قدمى فاستيقظا فشربا غبوقهما

  So I waited with the vessel in my hand until dawn broke, and the children were crying at my feet. They then awoke and drank their evening drink.

  يَتَضَاغَوْنَ — were crying. This is a present-tense verb in the plural, with 'they' carried in the ending, describing the children's ongoing crying. Inside the background clause it pictures what they were doing at his feet through the wait.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →