Arabic vocabulary
يَبْكِيَto make them weep in Arabic
يَبْكِيَ is how you say “to make them weep” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَإِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يَبْكِيَ
And if he wanted to make them weep.
يَبْكِيَ — to weep. A present-tense verb in the subjunctive shape forced by the particle before it, read causatively as 'make weep'. The subjunctive ending signals it is the aim being wanted, not an action already underway.
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