يسمىcalled

Example sentences

• أَن رجلا كَانَ يُسمى حمارا

  A man was called "Himar" (Donkey).

  يُسَمَّى — he was called. This is the passive form of a present-tense verb: the man receives the naming rather than doing it, someone calls him. Arabic marks the passive not with a helper word like English 'was' but by changing the vowels inside the verb, so it looks close to its active twin but reverses the roles.

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