يَعْتَرِيto befall

Example sentences

• وينسى ما يلحقه من الأمراض والأسقام، وما يعتريه من الكبر والهرم،

  And forgets what afflicts him of diseases and ailments, and what befalls him of old age and senility,

  يَعْتَرِيهِ — befalls him. A present-tense verb with an attached 'him' as its object, inside this clause: what overtakes him. The subject is inside the verb; the suffix marks him as the one it comes upon.

  From: A Path to Mercy →

• أخيال يعتري المبتدع أو جنون أو مس،

  Is it an illusion that afflicts the innovator, or madness or possession?

  يَعْتَرِي — it afflicts. A present-tense verb with its subject, 'illusion', understood from the question, and the implied object 'the innovator' following. The present form casts the afflicting as a recurring possibility being weighed.

  From: God's Attributes →