نَزْهًاmodest

Example sentences

• كَانَ اِبْنُ الْجَوْزِيِّ أَنِيقًا فِي مَظْهَرِهِ نَزْهًا نَظِيفًا، مُتَنَعِّمًا فِي مَعِيشَتِهِ،

  Ibn al-Jawzi was elegant in his appearance, modest and clean, and enjoyed the comforts of his life,

  نَزْهًا — modest. A further adjective in the run of descriptions, 'modest', in the object-style case set by the 'was' verb governing the whole series. Arabic lets one copula govern a string of predicate adjectives, each taking that same case.

  From: The Preacher's Legacy →