وَصَلَاthey joined / they fastened

Example sentences

• فَوَصَلَا مِنْ وَرَقِ التِّينِ وَعَمِلَا مَآزِرَ

  Then they joined fig leaves together and made aprons.

  فَوَصَلَا — then they joined. 'Fa-' opens this as the next step, 'then', attaching to a past verb in the dual. The '-a' ending marks exactly two doers (Adam and Eve) joining things together; the dual is Arabic's dedicated 'precisely two' form, folded into the verb.

  From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →