تَعَطَّلَdried up

Example sentences

• وأقلع شجر بستانها وتعطلت المروز،

  Her garden trees were uprooted, and the streams were dried up.

  وَتَعَطَّلَتِ — and were dried up. The 'and' joins a second clause, and beneath it a past-tense verb on a reflexive pattern means 'ceased / fell idle', with a feminine subject that follows. The reflexive shape conveys the streams stopping of themselves, and the verb precedes its subject in normal Arabic order.

  From: God's Promise of New Life →