Arabic vocabulary
How to say “was narrated” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
مثل ما روي عن أبي حمزة الصوفي أنه وقع في بئر فجاء رجلان فَطمّاها،
Like the story narrated about Abu Hamza al-Sufi, who fell into a well, and then two men came and filled it up.
رُوِيَ — was narrated. This is the passive form: the story is the thing narrated, with the narrator unnamed. Arabic marks the passive by reshaping the verb's inner vowels rather than by adding a helper word.
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