وَلَيْتُ I turned away in Arabic
وَلَيْتُ is how you say “I turned away” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَوَلَيْتُ مِنْهَا مَثَلِ مَا وَلَيْتُ
So I turned away from her, just as I had turned.
فَوَلَيْتُ so I turned away
The front fa- gives a 'so / and so' linking force, and the verb under it is a completed-action 'I turned away' with the 'I' subject built in. It reports Umar's own past failing in parallel to the scene before him. So the word both links and confesses his earlier neglect.
The English is machine-translated.

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More example sentences
فَوَلَيْتُ مِنْهَا مَثَلِ مَا وَلَيْتُ
So I turned away from her, just as I had turned.
وَلَيْتُ I had turned
This is a completed-action verb with the 'I' subject built in, mirroring the earlier 'turned away' to complete the comparison. It fills the relative clause 'what I had turned'. So it closes the parallel: he now leaves her as he once left her, the point of his remorse.