غَشِيَhave intercourse

Example sentences

• فَإِنَّ الرَّجُلَ إِذَا غَشِيَ الْمَرْأَةَ

  If a man has intercourse with a woman.

  غَشِيَ — he had intercourse. A past verb carrying its 'he' subject, here the verb the condition-particle governs, so it reads as the case being supposed. Its past shape after the conditional marks a hypothetical-yet-vivid 'should he do this', setting the trigger for the result.

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