يُهَانُmay be humiliated

Example sentences

• وَقَدْ يُهَانُ الشَّيْخُ فِي كِبْرِهِ حَتَّى تَرْحَمُهُ الْقُلُوبُ،

  An old man may be humiliated in his old age until people's hearts have mercy on him.

  يُهَانُ — may be humiliated. This is the passive form: the old man is the one humiliated, he does not do the humiliating; others bring it on him. Arabic marks the passive by changing the vowels inside the verb, not by adding a word like 'is', so the form sits close to its active twin but reverses the roles. Softened by the earlier 'may', it reads as a possible fate.

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