Arabic vocabulary
يسمىcalled in Arabic
يسمى is how you say “called” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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