Arabic vocabulary
مَشْغُولٌoccupied
How to say “occupied” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَأَنت مَشْغُول بالجيف
Yet you are occupied with carcasses.
مَشْغُولٌ — are occupied. A passive participle 'preoccupied / kept busy', the predicate, indefinite nominative agreeing with 'you' — 'busy'. It frames you as taken up by something.
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