أَلَمَّتْ befell in Arabic
أَلَمَّتْ is how you say “befell” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَٱمْتَنَعَتْ مِّنِّي حَتَّى أَلَمَّتْ بِهَا سَنَةٌ مِنَ السِّنِينَ،
So she refused from me until a year of hardship befell her.
أَلَمَّتْ befell
A past-tense verb 'befell' with a feminine 'it' ending, agreeing with the feminine 'year' that is its subject. It supplies the event reached at the endpoint named before it, the hardship that changed the situation.
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More example sentences
فأردتها على نفسها فامتنعت منى حتى ألمّت بها سنة من السنين فجاءتنى فأعطيتها عشرين ومائة دينار على أن تخلى بينى وبين نفسها ففعلت، حتى إذا قدرت عليها
I returned her to her own custody, but she withheld herself from me until a year of the years befell her. Then she came to me and I gave her one hundred and twenty dinars on the condition that she relinquish between me and her self; she did so, until when I gained power over her.
ألمّت befell
This is a past-tense verb meaning a hardship came upon her; its subject is named after, and it pairs with the bi- phrase next to mark whom it befell. It sets the turning point in completed past time as the thing that broke her resistance.