Arabic vocabulary
قُعَّادٍ is how you say “sitting” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَإِذَا بِثَلَاثَةِ نَفَرٍ قُعَّادٍ رُؤُوسُهُمْ فِي مُرَقَّعَاتِهِمْ
Then three people were sitting with their heads in their cloaks.
قعُود — sitting. A plural describing word giving the posture of the three people: they are in a seated state. It agrees with that counted group and pins down what they were doing when discovered, not a one-off action but an ongoing position.
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