Arabic vocabulary
بُنِيَbuilt in Arabic
بُنِيَ is how you say “built” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
تُبنى الأحكامُ على حفظِ خمسةٍ تُعَدُّ أُسَّ النظام الدِّينِ، والنَّفسِ، والعقلِ، والنَّسلِ، والمالِ
Judgments are based on the preservation of five essential values: religion, life, intellect, lineage, and wealth.
تُبْنَى — are built. A passive verb, 'are built / based,' doer unnamed — the focus is on the rulings, not who frames them. Feminine to agree with its subject 'the rulings,' a non-human plural treated as feminine singular. The vowels inside carry the passive.
From: Five Objectives of Islamic Law →
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