اِكْتَالَ الشَّعِيرَ
Translation: He measured out barley for himself.
اِكْتَالَ is an active past verb with an understood third-person masculine subject; الشَّعِيرَ is the accusative object. Its root is k–y–l, whose weak middle radical contributes to the visible shape.
The “for himself” sense is the textbook’s semantic interpretation, not a separately written Arabic prepositional phrase in this example.
LessonsSix Semantic Functions of Form VIII (Iftiʿāl): Adoption, Exertion, Selection, Response, Equivalence, and Independent UsageQuiz
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Analyzing Iktāla al-Shaʿīra
اِكْتَالَ الشَّعِيرَ
Translation: He measured out barley for himself.
اِكْتَالَ is an active past verb with an understood third-person masculine subject; الشَّعِيرَ is the accusative object. Its root is k–y–l, whose weak middle radical contributes to the visible shape.
The “for himself” sense is the textbook’s semantic interpretation, not a separately written Arabic prepositional phrase in this example.