أَسْرَقَmore cunning

Example sentences

• وكلما كان أمهر كان أسرق،

  And the more skilled one is, the more likely they are to steal.

  أَسْرَقَ — more cunning. This is the elative of the result limb ('more thieving / cunning at theft'), the accusative predicate of the second 'to be'. Set against 'more skilled', it completes the biting proportion: the better the accountant, the bigger the thief. Its case marks it as a 'kana' predicate.

  From: Intention in Islam →