Arabic vocabulary
يَرْتَدُّturns back in Arabic
يَرْتَدُّ is how you say “turns back” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
بَلْ كَثِيرٌ مِنْهُمْ يَرْتَدُّ عَنْ الإِسْلَامِ
Indeed, many of them apostatize from Islam.
يَرْتَدُّ — apostatize. A present-tense verb in a derived 'turn-back-on-oneself' pattern, meaning 'apostatizes/reverts'. It is singular, agreeing with 'many' treated as a collective. It states the action the subject is said to do.
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