صلات الفعل (وَلَّى يُوَلِّيْ تَوْلِيَةً)

Abstract: Among the Arabic verbs that have multiple meanings and have been used in the Islamic period as well as in pre-Islamic, ‘tauliyat’ (wallá yuwallī tauliyatan). This verb means to turn to come back, to turn someone towards s.th. and to make s.o. successor. It also means to run away as well as to breathe his last. It comes as a synonym to ‘idbār’ (to take u-turn) and antonym to ‘iqbāl’ (to proceed). It is also among the verbs that took place in the last divine book the holy Qur’ān. Sometimes it is used as weak verb also like ‘وَلَّى قتيلًا’ means ‘قُتِلَ’ (to be killed).It comes as ‘transitive’ and ‘intransitive’ the both. The transitive has also two objects whereas the second object is applied to by the preposition (عن). As for the intransitive, a total of seven prepositions are applied to it. They are إلى (ilá), الباء (bā), على (‘alá), عن (‘an), في (fī), اللام (lām) and مِنْ (min). Their meanings along with citations have been mentioned in this article.

Key-wrods: Arabic verbs, prepositions, the Qur’ān and Arabic poetry.