وراء

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From و ر ء (w-r-ʔ) or و ر ي (w-r-y). Lane's Dictionary, page 2933, "ورأ" meaning to push back behind something, to obscure or cover over; ultimately from "ورى", page 3052, meaning to make a fire, to set a blaze in front of you, behind its cover, to allude, to pretend or being ambiguous, to state something symbolically or to see another meaning besides the apparent.

Preposition

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وَرَاءَ (warāʔa)

  1. behind
    • 1959, Naguib Mahfouz, chapter 3, in Children of Gebelawi:
      وَتَجْلِسُ فِي اللَّيْلِ وَرَاءَ النَّافِذَةِ
      wa-tajlisu fī l-layli warāʾa n-nāfiḏati
      And in the evening she sits behind the window.

Inflection

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    Inflected forms
Base form وَرَاءَ (warāʔa)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms
Singular Dual Plural
Masculine Feminine Common Masculine Feminine
First person وَرَائِي (warāʔī) وَرَاءَنَا (warāʔanā)
Second person وَرَاءَكَ (warāʔaka) وَرَاءَكِ (warāʔaki) وَرَاءَكُمَا (warāʔakumā) وَرَاءَكُمْ (warāʔakum) وَرَاءَكُنَّ (warāʔakunna)
Third person وَرَاءَهُ (warāʔahu) وَرَاءَهَا (warāʔahā) وَرَاءَهُمَا (warāʔahumā) وَرَاءَهُمْ (warāʔahum) وَرَاءَهُنَّ (warāʔahunna)

Descendants

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  • Maltese: wara