يَغْضَبْbecome angry

Example sentences

• فيقول إن ربي غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله، وإنه قد كانت لي دعوة دعوت بها على قومي،

  He says, "My Lord was angry today with an anger like none before it, and none like it will be after it, and indeed there was for me a supplication which I invoked against my people,"

  يَغْضَبَ — become angry. A present-tense verb with 'he' inside it, pulled into the past and shortened (jussive) by the negation word before it. The sense is 'he never grew angry', the clipped ending marking the negator's effect.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →

• فيقول عيسى إن ربي غضب اليوم غضباً لم يغضب قبله مثله، ولن يغضب بعده مثله ولم يذكر ذنباً،

  Then Jesus will say, "My Lord was angry today with an anger like none before it, and none like it will be after it, and he did not mention any sin."

  يَغْضَبْ — be angry. Present in shape but, under the preceding negator, read as a past denial with a shortened ending and the 'he' subject inside. Negator plus clipped form yields 'He never got angry'.

  From: The Prophet's Intercession →