لُبْثَabsence in Arabic

Example sentences

• فَلَبِثَ عَنْيِ فَأَطَالَ اللُّبْثَ،

  So he stayed away from me and prolonged his absence.

  اللُّبْثَ — the absence. A definite verbal noun, 'the staying/the lingering', in the set object form as the thing he prolonged. It names the action itself turned into a noun, the object of 'he made long'.

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