آتٍone who comes

Example sentences

• فَأَتَانِيٓ آتٍ فَجَعَلَ يَحْثُو مِنَ الطَّعَامِ، فَأَخَذْتُهُ،

  Then a man came to me and began scooping up the food, so I seized him.

  آتٍ — a man. An active participle, a doer-word built from a verb, used here as a noun, 'one who comes / a comer'. It is the subject of the previous verb, named after it; its indefinite form leaves the comer unidentified, just 'someone'.

  From: The Verse of the Throne →