عَمِلَاthey made / they fashioned

Example sentences

• فَوَصَلَا مِنْ وَرَقِ التِّينِ وَعَمِلَا مَآزِرَ

  Then they joined fig leaves together and made aprons.

  وَعَمِلَا — and they made. 'Wa-' adds a second action, attaching to a past verb in the dual: the '-a' ending marks exactly two doers, Adam and Eve, making something. The dual again folds 'the two of them' into the verb form rather than using a separate word.

  From: Adam, Eve, and the Forbidden Tree →