قِيلbe called

Example sentences

• لَوْلَا صِحَة مامته مَا قيل ابْن الحنيفة

  If not for the soundness of his leadership, he would not be called the son of Hanifiyyah.

  قِيلَ — it was called. This is the passive of 'to say', and Arabic forms it not with a helper word but by changing the inner vowels, an 'ee' sound replacing the active 'aa'. No sayer is named; the focus is purely that the title was given.

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