مدفوقpoured upon

Example sentences

• يقال دفقت الماء فهو مدفوق ودافق ومندفق

  It is said, "I poured the water," so it is "madfuq," "dafiq," and "mundafiq."

  مَدْفُوقٌ — madfuq. A passive participle, the form meaning 'the thing that has been poured'. Arabic builds this 'done-to' noun on a fixed pattern (the maf'ul shape); it names water as the receiver of the action, parallel to English past participles like 'poured'.

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• فالمدفوق الذي وقع عليه فعلك كالمكسور والمضروب

  So "madfuq" is that which your action falls upon, like "maksur" (broken) and "madrub" (struck).

  فَالْمَدْفُوقُ — So, 'madfuq'. fa- (so) on a passive participle made definite by al-, 'the poured-upon one'. This maf'ul pattern names the receiver of an action; the sentence now defines that term, marking it as the topic with its subject ending.

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