أَعْيَاbecame exhausted

Example sentences

• فَأَبْطَأَ بِي جِمَالِيُ وَأَعْيَا،

  Then my camel slowed down and became exhausted.

  وَأَعْيَا — and became exhausted. The opening wa- ('and') joins this verb to the one before, stacking two things the same camel did. Both verbs are past tense and share the same hidden subject ('it'), so the wa- simply lines up 'slowed' and 'became exhausted' as parallel actions.

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• قُلْتُ أَبْطَأَ عَلَيَّ جَمَلِي وَأَعْيَا،

  I said, "My camel slowed down on me and became exhausted."

  وَأَعْيَا — and became exhausted. The opening wa- ('and') joins this to the previous verb, lining up two things the same camel did. Both share one hidden subject ('it'), so the wa- simply coordinates 'slowed' and 'became exhausted' as a matched pair.

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