Arabic vocabulary
سَاجِدٌ is how you say “prostrating” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وَهُوَ رَاكِعٌ وَسَاجِدٌ
And he was bowing and prostrating.
وَسَاجِدٌ — and prostrating. A doer-noun ('one prostrating') fronted by 'wa-' (and), pairing a second posture alongside the first at the same level. The 'wa-' coordinates the two states, so the man is described as both bowing and prostrating together.
From: A Night of Reckoning →فَإِذَا رَأَيْتُ رَبِّيَ وَقَعْتُ لَهُ سَاجِدًا
So when I see my Lord, I fall down prostrate before Him.
سَاجِدًا — in prostration. A descriptive noun in the object form used to state the manner of the action, 'prostrating', telling how the speaker fell. Arabic marks such a state-of-the-doer with the object ending even though it is not the verb's object. So it adds the circumstance accompanying the falling rather than a thing acted upon.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →OpenArabic teaches words like سَاجِدٌ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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