عَلَاrise

Example sentences

• كلما تليت فضائله علا عَلَيْهِم الصغار

  Whenever his virtues are recited, humiliation rises upon them.

  عَلَتْ — they rise. A past-tense verb 'rose / mounted' with the feminine '-at' agreeing with 'humiliation' — the result of the condition. It climbs over the haters.

  From: Abu Bakr: First Champion of Islam →

• فأقسم سبحانه بالسماء ذات المطر والأرض ذات النبات وكل من ذلك آية من آيات الله تعالى الدالة على ربوبيته

  So He, the Exalted, swore by the sky with its rain and the earth with its plants, and each of these is a sign of Allah's lordship.

  تَعَالَى — the Exalted. An honorific 'the Exalted', a frozen praise word following the name of God. It works as an attached epithet rather than a regular clause element.

  From: Signs of Resurrection →

• إِلَى أَنْ عَلَا الضَّجِيجُ، وَتَرَدَّدَ بِشَهِقَاتِهِ النَّشِيجِ،

  Until the clamor rose and reverberated with its plaintive sobs,

  عَلَا — rose. A past-tense verb with 'it' built into its shape, reporting that the clamour rose. The subject is carried inside the verb's form, so the single word states both the action and its doer without a separate pronoun.

  From: Public Preaching →