Arabic vocabulary
اِبْيَضَّتْ is how you say “turned white” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى يُوسُف فَتَوَلّى عَنْهُم وَقَالَ يَا أسفي على يُوسُف وابيضت عَيناهُ من الْحزن فَهُوَ كظيم
And from this is His saying in Surah Yusuf: 'So he turned away from them and said, "Oh, my grief over Yusuf!" And his eyes turned white from sadness, for he was suppressing it.'
وَابْيَضَّتْ — and it turned white. A connector plus a past verb, 'and it turned white', with a feminine ending agreeing with the feminine dual 'his two eyes' that follows. The 'and' adds the next narrated effect of grief.
From: Patience in Hard Times →OpenArabic teaches words like اِبْيَضَّتْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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