أَبْطَأَ slow in Arabic
أَبْطَأَ is how you say “slow” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وَمَنْ أَبَطْأَ بِهِ عَمَلُهُ لَمْ يُسْرِعْ بِهِ نَسَبُهُ
And whoever is slowed by his deeds will not be hastened forward by his lineage.
أَبْطَأَ is slowed
This is the case-verb of 'whoever': a past-tense form that, after a conditional word, reads as a general 'whenever/if' rather than strictly past. Its doer, 'his deeds,' comes later; the person himself is the one held back.
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More example sentences
فَأَبْطَأَ بِي جِمَالِيُ وَأَعْيَا،
Then my camel slowed down and became exhausted.
فَأَبْطَأَ so slowed down
The prefix fa- ties this to the previous sentence as the next thing that happened ('and then'), giving a sense of consequence or sequence rather than a loose 'and'. The verb itself is past tense with its doer ('it', the camel) named afterwards.
قُلْتُ أَبْطَأَ عَلَيَّ جَمَلِي وَأَعْيَا،
I said, "My camel slowed down on me and became exhausted."
أَبْطَأَ slowed down
Past-tense verb 'slowed', third person, whose doer is not inside the verb but named a couple of words later (the camel). Arabic regularly puts the verb first and lets its subject arrive after, which is what happens across this clause.