Arabic vocabulary
يُبْكِيَmake someone weep in Arabic
يُبْكِيَ is how you say “make someone weep” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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