أَمْسَى became in Arabic
أَمْسَى is how you say “became” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
قَالَ فأمسى كئيبًا حَزينًا
So he became sad and sorrowful.
فَأَمْسَى so he became
'fa-' = 'so'; past-tense verb 'amsa' = 'he became (by evening)'; subject 'he' is built in.
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More example sentences
وَظَلَّ ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمَ وَلَا يَرَاهُ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ حَتَّى أَمْسَى،
And that continued throughout the day, and the Prophet did not see him until evening.
أَمْسَى become evening
A past verb marking the arrival of evening, its impersonal 'it' subject built in. It names the time-boundary the 'until' pointed toward.
فَلَمَّا أَمْسَى النَّاسُ الْيَوْمَ الَّذِي فُتِحَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ أَوْقَدُوا نِيرَانًا كَثِيرَةً
When evening fell on the day that had been opened to them, the people kindled many fires.
أَمْسَى evening fell
A finished-action verb meaning 'reached evening', framing the falling of night; the people named next are its subject. As one of the time-of-day framing verbs, its job is to anchor when the following events occurred.
قَالَ فَأَمْسَى كَئِيبًا حَزِينًا
He said, and by evening he became dejected and sad.
فَأَمْسَى and he became by evening
The connector 'fa-' (and then) on a past verb of the 'became by evening' type, a special verb that both sets the time as nightfall and links a state to its subject. So one word says 'and by evening he came to be...', with the following adjectives describing how he ended up. The 'fa-' marks this as the next step in the sequence.