مُعَلَّقَةٌhanging / suspended in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَإِذَا يَدُهُ الْيُمْنَى مُعَلَّقَةٌ فِي عُنْقِهِ

  And when his right hand was hanging from his neck.

  مُعَلَّقَةٌ — hanging. A doer-noun in the receiving sense ('hung'), working as the predicate of the verbless clause to describe the hand's state. Arabic ties it to the subject with no 'was', so the participle alone carries 'his hand was hanging'.

  From: A Night of Reckoning →

• وَإِذَا أُهُبٌ مُعَلَّقَةٌ وَقَرَظٌ،

  And when tufts and laths are suspended,

  مُعَلَّقَةٌ — suspended. A describing word 'hung up / suspended' agreeing with the hides; it is feminine-singular in shape because it describes a non-human plural (Arabic treats those as feminine-singular for agreement). It states their condition.

  From: Umar and the Prophet's Wives →