Arabic vocabulary

مفعولpassive in Arabic

مفعول is how you say “passive” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

والدافق قيل إنه فاعل بمعنى مفعول كقولهم سر كاتم وعيشة راضية
And it is said that "dafiq" is an active participle with the meaning of a passive, like their saying "sir katim" and "ʿīsha rāḍiya."
مَفْعُولٍ — a passive. The grammatical term 'passive participle' (the maf'ul form), in the genitive as the owned noun of 'with the meaning of a passive'. The whole point: a word shaped like a doer-noun can carry the sense of a done-to noun.
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