تَرْجُفُtremble

Example sentences

• تَرْجُفُ بَوَادِرُهُ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَى خَدِيجَةَ

  His limbs were trembling until he entered upon Khadijah.

  تَرْجُفُ — were trembling. A present-tense verb whose feminine ending agrees with the plural 'limbs' that follows, kept present to paint the trembling vividly as if before the eyes. So although English reads it as past, the present shape makes the scene immediate.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →