Arabic vocabulary
رَاعِيًاshepherd
How to say “shepherd” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَأَتَتْ رَاعِيًا،
So she came as a shepherd.
رَاعِيًا — as a shepherd. This names the guise in which she came -- a shepherd -- functioning as a descriptive state alongside the verb, and its -an tail marks that role (an indefinite object/state). It is the costume the coming took on, not the doer of a new verb.
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