سُمِّيَwas named

Example sentences

• كَذَا سُمِّيَ الْمَسْجِدُ

  Thus the mosque was named.

  سُمِّيَ — was named. This is a passive verb: the mosque is what gets named, undergoing the action rather than doing it, with no named namer. Arabic marks the passive by reshaping the verb's internal vowels, on a doubled-middle pattern, not by a helper word. So it reads 'it was named' with the doer left unstated.

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