Tafseel — Quranic Arabic

Hafiz soon

Yusuf · 12:84

And he turned away from them and said, "Oh, my sorrow over Joseph," and his eyes became white from grief, for he was [of that] a suppressor.

Sahih International

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وَتَوَلَّىٰ

watawallā

And he turned away

Word breakdown

Harf · Conjunction

and

تولى

Fi'l · Verb

And he turned away

Rootوليwly

to be a protector/guardian, turn towards/away, friend

232× in the Quran · Common

LemmaتَوَلَّىٰVerb (form V) - to turn

Past tense verb

وَتَوَلَّىٰ (And he turned away) is a past tense verb — the action already happened and is complete.

We translate it in past tense — "did", "created", "said", etc.

Verb form V — doing to oneself

وَتَوَلَّىٰ (And he turned away) uses form V (تَفَعَّلَ) — it's the reflexive of form II, meaning doing the action to yourself.

We translate it as "to [verb] oneself".

Conjunction وَ (and)

وَتَوَلَّىٰ (And he turned away) starts with وَ, the most common Arabic word — it means "and".

We add "and" to connect this to what came before.