آكِلٌone who eats

Example sentences

• آكِلٌ مِنْ كِيسِي وَمِنْ كِسْوَتِي حَتَّى لَقَدْ أَوْجَعَنِي ضِرْسِي

  I ate from my purse and from my clothes until my molar ached.

  آكِلٌ — I eat. A noun built from a verb (a doer-noun, 'one eating') used here as the standing subject of the line, 'I am eating'. It names the speaker as the one in the act, working like an ongoing 'eating' rather than a tensed verb.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →