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فاعل doer in Arabic

فاعل is how you say “doer” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

والمتدفق المطلوع لفعل الفاعل

And "mutadaffiq" is attributed to the action of the doer.

الفَاعِلِ the doer

An active participle made definite by al-, 'the doer / agent', the owning second noun of 'the action of the doer', hence the genitive. This is the grammatical term for the one who performs the action, the fa'il.

From Creating Life from Nothing

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والدافق قيل إنه فاعل بمعنى مفعول كقولهم سر كاتم وعيشة راضية

And it is said that "dafiq" is an active participle with the meaning of a passive, like their saying "sir katim" and "ʿīsha rāḍiya."

فَاعِلٌ active participle

The grammatical term 'active participle' (the fa'il form), here an indefinite predicate: 'it is an active participle'. The claim is that this word has the form of a doer-noun even though, as the next words say, it carries a passive sense.

From Creating Life from Nothing

وقيل وهو الصواب إنه اسم فاعل على بابه

And it is said, and this is correct, that it is an active participle in its original sense.

فَاعِلٍ participle

An active participle 'doer' in the genitive, the owned second noun of 'noun of the doer'. Together the pairing is the technical name for the fa'il form; here it completes 'it is an active participle'.

From Creating Life from Nothing

ولا يلزم من ذلك أن يكون هو فاعل الدفق

And it is not required that he be the performer of the pouring.

فَاعِلَ the performer

An agent noun 'doer of' in the object-style ending because it is the predicate of the 'to be' verb, which puts its predicate into the accusative-style ending. It heads a possessive pairing with 'the pouring' after it: 'the doer of the pouring'.

From Creating Life from Nothing

فإن اسم الفاعل هو من قام به الفعل سواء فعله هو أو غيره

For an active participle is one by whom the action is carried out, whether he performed it himself or someone else did.

الفَاعِلِ of the active

An active participle 'the doer' made definite by al-, the owned second noun of 'noun of the doer', in the genitive. The pairing is the technical name for the fa'il form being defined.

From Creating Life from Nothing

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