تَبْدُوappear

Example sentences

• قال الفراء تبدى بالمطر ثم ترجع به في كل عام

  Al-Farāʾ said: It appears with rain and then returns every year.

  تَبْدُو — it appears. A present-tense verb 'it appears' with the doer 'it' built in, the feminine subject being the sky understood from context. The present form marks a habitual, recurring action rather than a one-off event.

  From: Oaths of Provision →

• وكذلك قال ابن عباس ﵄ تبدى بالمطر ثم ترجع به في كل عام

  And likewise, Ibn Abbas said: It appears with rain and then returns with it every year.

  تَبْدُو — it appears. A present-tense verb 'it appears' with the feminine 'it' subject built in, the sky understood from context. The present form marks the appearing as a recurring, habitual event.

  From: Oaths of Provision →

• فمن كانت سريرته صالحة كان عمله صالحًا فتبدو سريرته على وجهه نورًا وإشراقًا وحياء ومن كانت سريرته

  So whoever has a righteous inner state, his actions will be righteous; then his inner state appears on his face as light, radiance, and modesty, and whoever's inner state...

  فَتَبْدُو — then it appears. The fa- here chains the next event onto the result, 'and then', moving from the inner cause to its visible effect. The verb is present-tense with its subject carried inside the form, so 'it appears' is one word, and the connector marks this appearing as following from what came before.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →

• وإن كان الذي يبدو عليه في الدنيا إنما هو عمله لا سريرته فيوم القيامة تبدو عليه سريرته ويكون الحكم والظهور لها

  If what appears about someone in this world is only his deeds and not his inner self, then on the Day of Resurrection his inner self will be revealed and the judgment and manifestation will be for it.

  تَبْدُو — will appear. A present-tense verb 'will appear', carrying its feminine subject inside its form, since the inner self that follows is grammatically feminine. The verb describes the disclosure that the Day brings, and its shape agrees in gender with that delayed subject.

  From: Creation Points to Resurrection →