Arabic vocabulary
تَوَفَّىpass away
How to say “pass away” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
ثُمَّ لَمْ يَنْشَبْ وَرَقَةُ أَنْ تُوُفِّيَ،
Then it was not long before Waraqah died.
تُتَوَفَّى — he died. This is the passive cast into the subjunctive after 'an': Waraqah is TAKEN (in death) rather than doing anything, and Arabic marks both the passive (inner vowels) and the post-'an' mood (reshaped ending) on the one verb. The agent, God taking the soul, is left unspoken.
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