Arabic vocabulary
سُمِّيَwas named in Arabic
سُمِّيَ is how you say “was named” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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