Arabic vocabulary
How to say “veiled” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
فَقَالَ قَائِلٌ لِأَبِي بَكْرٍ هَذَا رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مُقْبِلًا مُتَقَنِّعًا،
A speaker said to Abu Bakr, "This is the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, coming toward us, veiled."
مُتَقَنِّعًا — veiled. A second state-describing participle, 'veiled / muffled', again in the -an accusative that marks a circumstance clause. Stacked on the first, it adds another detail of how he came, that his face was covered, both describing the single approach.
From: The Secret Migration →OpenArabic teaches words like مُتَقَنِّع through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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