أَبْطَأَslow

Example sentences

• 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.

  From: Easing a Believer's Hardship →

• 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.

  From: Marriage and Financial Justice →

• 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.

  From: Marriage and Financial Justice →