نَائِمٌsleeping (dual)

Example sentences

• فَوَجَدْتُهُمَا نَائِمَيْنِ وَكَرِهْتُ أَنْ أَغْبِقَ قِبَلَهُمَا أَهْلاً أَوْ مَالًا،

  So I found them both sleeping, and I disliked to shut them out from family or from wealth.

  نَائِمَيْنِ — sleeping (both). A describing word in the dual taking the object-style ending, standing as the state the two were found in. Its dual ending agrees with the pair just named, marking 'both asleep', and the object shape ties it to the 'found' verb.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →