وراء

Arabic

Etymology

From و ر ء‎ (w-r-ʾ) or و ر ي‎ (w-r-y).[1]

Preposition

وَرَاءَ • (warāʾa)

  1. behind
    • 1959, Naguib Mahfouz, chapter 3, in Children of Gebelawi:
      ‏وَتَجْلِسُ فِى 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 (warāʾa)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms		 Singular Dual Plural
Masculine Feminine Common Masculine Feminine
First person وَرَائِي‎ (warāʾī) وَرَاءَنَا‎ (warāʾanā)
Second person وَرَاءَكَ‎ (warāʾaka) وَرَاءَكِ‎ (warāʾaki) وَرَاءَكُمَا‎ (warāʾakumā) وَرَاءَكُمْ‎ (warāʾakum) وَرَاءَكُنَّ‎ (warāʾakunna)
Third person وَرَاءَهُ‎ (warāʾahu) وَرَاءَهَا‎ (warāʾahā) وَرَاءَهُمَا‎ (warāʾahumā) وَرَاءَهُمْ‎ (warāʾahum) وَرَاءَهُنَّ‎ (warāʾahunna)
  1. 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.
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