قَائِمًاstanding

Example sentences

• فَمَلأَهُ بِالْمَاءِ وَأَدْنَاهُ مِنَ الْمِصْبَاحِ، فَلَمْ يَزَلْ قَائِمًا وَهُوَ فِي يَدِهِ حَتَّى أَصْبَحَ

  So he filled it with water and placed it nearer to the lamp, and he did not cease standing while it was in his hand until morning came.

  قَائِمًا — standing. This is an active participle, a 'doer' word meaning 'standing', and its open -an ending marks it as the state in which the subject persisted. It completes the 'did not cease standing' idiom by naming the posture he kept. The -an ending is the grammatical clue that it describes his condition during the action.

  From: A Son Protecting His Father →