رُفِعَتْlifted

Example sentences

• رُفِعَتْ الْأَقْلَامُ، وَجَفَّتْ الصُّحُفُ

  The pens have been lifted, and the pages have dried.

  رُفِعَتِ — it was lifted. A passive past verb, marked by its inner 'u-i' vowels rather than any helper word, 'were lifted'. The feminine '-at' agrees with the following plural 'pens' (a non-human plural, treated as feminine); no lifter is named.

  From: Patience and Trust in God →

• فَرُفِعَتْ لَنَا صَخْرَةٌ طَوْيِلَةٌ،

  Then a long rock was raised for us.

  فَرُفِعَتْ — then was raised. The leading 'fa-' (so/then) advances the scene, fused onto a verb in its passive shape: the rock receives the action of being raised, with no stated raiser. Arabic builds the passive by changing the vowels inside the verb itself, not by adding a helper like English 'was'. So the form looks close to its active twin but flips who does and who undergoes.

  From: A Night with the Prophet →