صُرِفَwas turned away

Example sentences

• فَلَمَّا أَتَوْهُمْ صُرِفَتْ وُجُوهُهُمْ

  When they came to them, their faces were turned away.

  صُرِفَتْ — were turned away. A passive verb: its inner vowels are reshaped so the faces undergo the turning rather than do it, 'were turned away', with no agent named. The feminine-singular '-at' is the regular agreement Arabic uses for a non-human plural like 'faces'.

  From: A Companion at Battle →