يُصْلِحُbe balanced

Example sentences

• وينبغي أن يصلح حاره ببارده،

  And its hotness should be balanced with its coldness.

  يُصْلَحَ — be balanced. This is a passive verb: the heat does not act but is acted upon, 'be corrected, be balanced'. Arabic marks the passive not with a helper like English 'is/was' but by changing the internal vowels of the verb. It also sits in the subjunctive mood because the particle an precedes it.

  From: The Art of Eating Well →

• فَهُوَ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا يُصْلِحُ النُّفُوسَ وَيَتَأَلَّفُهَا

  He is an expert in what reforms the souls and brings them into harmony.

  يُصْلِحُ — he reforms. A present-tense verb on the 'make right' causative pattern, 'reforms/sets right', with a hidden 'it/that' subject from the relative. The corrective sense is built into the verb's shape, and its object follows directly.

  From: The Preacher's Legacy →