يُبْكِيَmake someone weep

Example sentences

• وَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُبْكِيَ أَبْكَى الصَّخْرَ الأَصَمَ

  And when he wanted to make people weep, he made even the unresponsive rock weep.

  يُبْكِيَ — make someone weep. A present-tense verb in the subjunctive shape forced by the particle before it, read causatively as 'make weep'. The changed ending signals it is the aim being wanted, not an action already happening.

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