وراء

Arabic

Etymology

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

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

Inflected forms
base form وَرَاءَ (warāʔa)
Personal-pronoun including forms
singular dual plural
m f m f
1st person وَرَائِي (warāʔī) وَرَاءَنَا (warāʔanā)
2nd person وَرَاءَكَ (warāʔaka) وَرَاءَكِ (warāʔaki) وَرَاءَكُمَا (warāʔakumā) وَرَاءَكُمْ (warāʔakum) وَرَاءَكُنَّ (warāʔakunna)
3rd person وَرَاءَهُ (warāʔahu) وَرَاءَهَا (warāʔahā) وَرَاءَهُمَا (warāʔahumā) وَرَاءَهُمْ (warāʔahum) وَرَاءَهُنَّ (warāʔahunna)

Descendants

  • Maltese: wara
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