قَارِئًاreading

Example sentences

• لِأَنَّهُ إِنْ كَانَ قَارِئًا بِنَفْسِهِ فَبِجَهْدِهِ أَنْ يَتَهَجَّى الأَسْمَاءَ وَالمُتُونَ

  Because if he is reading by his own self, then by his effort that he spell out the names and the texts.

  قَارِئًا — reading. An active participle 'reading / a reader', naming the doer as an ongoing state. It serves as the predicate of the 'to be' verb before it, and because that verb pulls its predicate into the accusative, this word carries that ending: 'he is a reader'.

  From: Humility Over Fame →

• وَعَدَدُهُمْ نَيِّفٌ عَلَى الْعِشْرِينَ قَارِئًا،

  And their number was a little over twenty reciters,

  قارئًا — reciters. A singular noun 'reciter' in the object-style case, the counted item after the numeral. Arabic counts above ten with a singular noun in this accusative-of-specification, so the form is singular though the meaning is plural ('twenty-odd reciters'). The case marks it as the thing specified.

  From: Public Preaching →