بَكَى cry in Arabic
بَكَى is how you say “cry” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَقَالَ إِنَّك إِن تضحك وَأَنت مقرّ بخطيئتك خير من أَن تبْكي وَأَنت مدل بعملك
He said, 'It is better for you to laugh while acknowledging your sins than to cry while boasting of your deeds.'
تَبْكِيَ you cry
The verb in the subjunctive that 'an' requires, subject 'you' inside. The added '-a' vowel (here surfacing as '-iya' on this weak-final verb) is the subjunctive mark, giving 'that you weep'.
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More example sentences
إن كان عطاء بن يسار ليحدثنا أنا وأبا حازم حتى يبكينا ثم يحدثنا حتى يضحكنا،
Indeed, Ata ibn Yasar would narrate to us, to Abu Hazim and me, until he made us cry, then he would narrate until he made us laugh,
يُبْكِينَا he made us cry
This causative verb means 'he made us cry', with the 'us' object built onto its end. It sits in the subjunctive because the 'until' before it demands that mood, marking the weeping as the aim the storytelling led to. The causative shape itself, distinct from plain 'cry', means he brought the crying about in others.
فَبَكَى طَوِيلًا،
Then he wept for a long time.
فَبَكَى then he wept
The prefixed fa- on the front sets up sequence: the weeping follows directly on the recounting, 'and then he wept'. The verb itself is a past-tense form with the subject 'he' built into its shape, no separate pronoun needed, so the prefix supplies the timing and the verb supplies the doer.