Arabic vocabulary
قَائِمُone who stands in Arabic
قَائِمُ is how you say “one who stands” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَمِنَ الْغَدِ حَتَّى قَامَ قَائِمُ الظَّهِيرَةِ،
And from the morning until the noon watchman stood up,
قَائِمُ — noon watchman. An agent-noun built from a verb, naming the one-who-stands as the doer of the 'stood up' before it, so it takes the subject ending. It heads an 'of' pairing with the time-word that follows, 'the stander of noon'. Such doer-nouns are formed on a fixed active pattern.
From: A Night with the Prophet →
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