عَمِيَblinded in Arabic

Example sentences

• فأحكمت الشقة حَتَّى عمي على الْقَائِف الْمطلب

  So the web sealed the crack until it blinded the tracker from the search.

  عَمِيَ — it blinded. A past-tense verb 'became blind / was hidden from', its subject coming next, weak final root — here 'the search was lost to'. It pictures the trail going dark.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• وَكَانَ شَيْخًا كَبِيرًا قَدْ عَمِيَ

  He was an old man who had become blind.

  عَمِيَ — became blind. A past-tense verb already carrying its subject inside it: the 'he' is baked into the form, so no separate pronoun is needed. It rounds off the qad clause, the completed-state idea begun by qad landing on this verb to give 'had gone blind'.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →