يَتَنَقَّلُhe moves about

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ أَخْرَجَ طِفْلًا يَتَنَقَّلُ مِنْ خَرْقِ الْقِمَاطِ إِلَى خَزِّ الْخَزُوزِ،

  Then he brought out a child who moved from the rags of the swaddling cloth into the small chest.

  يَتَنَقَّلُ — he moves about. A present-tense verb in a reflexive pattern 'moves himself about repeatedly', with a 'he' subject in its form. With no relative word before it, it describes the just-mentioned indefinite child, the Arabic way of attaching a description to an indefinite noun.

  From: On Birth and Its Timing →