عَجُوزٌold woman

Example sentences

• قالَت يا وَيلتا أألِدُ وأنا عَجوزُ

  She said, 'Woe is me, will I give birth while I am an old woman?'

  عَجُوزٌ — an old woman. This noun is the predicate of the circumstantial clause, completing 'while I am an old woman', and it carries the subject ending as the thing said about 'I'. The indefinite shape presents old age as a general condition, sharpening the wonder of her giving birth.

  From: God's Promise of New Life →