حَرِيصًاeager

Example sentences

• وَكُلُّ قَوْمِهَا كَانَ حَرِيصًا عَلَى نِكَاحِهَا لَوْ قَدِرَ عَلَى ذَلِكَ،

  And each of her people would have been eager to marry her if he had been able to do so.

  حَرِيصًا — eager. An adjective ('eager') serving as the complement of the 'was' verb, telling you the state each person was in; it carries the accusative ending that this verb assigns to its complement. The accusative is the mark that it completes the 'was', not that it is an object acted upon.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →