أَلَمَّتْbefell

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• 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.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →