Arabic vocabulary
سُلِمَwas saved
How to say “was saved” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَحُفِظَ مِنَ الْغَرْقِ وَسُلِمَ مِنَ الطُّوفَانِ
So it was preserved from drowning and saved from the flood.
وَسُلِمَ — and it was saved. The 'wa-' couples this clause to the previous one, and the verb is again a PASSIVE ('was kept safe'): the subject receives the action and the agent is unnamed. Arabic signals this by the verb's inner vowels rather than by any added helper word, mirroring the first passive verb.
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