قَرِيرَةٌsteady and watchful

Example sentences

• وَكَيْفَ تَنَامُ الْعَيْنُ وَهِيَ قَرِيرَةٌ

  And how can the eye sleep while it is steady and watchful?

  قَرِيرَةٌ — steady and watchful. An adjective describing the eye's condition, the predicate of the 'while it is...' circumstance. Its feminine ending matches the feminine 'eye' it describes. So it pins the eye's state, here a wary, unsettled alertness, that makes its sleeping seem impossible.

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