بَاقِيٍremaining

Example sentences

• فَأَخَذَتَا يَخْتَصِمَانِ فِي الصَّبِيِّ الْبَاقِيِّ

  They then began to argue over the remaining child.

  الْبَاقِي — the remaining. A describing word attached to the child, and in Arabic an adjective must echo its noun on several fronts at once: it copies the noun's definiteness, taking its own 'the', and matches the same post-preposition case. That mirroring is how a reader knows this adjective belongs to that noun and not some other one in the sentence.

  From: Stories of Prophetic Judgments →