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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.

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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.

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