قَلَقanxiety

Example sentences

• لحظة أثمرت حرارة القلق ألف سنة،

  A moment bore the heat of anxiety for a thousand years.

  القَلَقِ — of anxiety. al- = 'the'; qalaq means 'anxiety, restlessness' — the 'of…' word: 'of anxiety'.

  From: Adam's Descent →

• قَالَ الصدّيق وَقد اشْتَدَّ بِهِ القلق

  The Truthful One, overwhelmed with anxiety, said.

  الْقَلَقُ — anxiety. The subject of 'intensified', nominative ('-u'), after its verb — his worry. What had grown sharp in Abu Bakr.

  From: The Night of the Migration →

• فَزَالَ القلق وطاب عَيْش الماكث

  So anxiety vanished, and the resident's life became pleasant.

  الْقَلَقُ — the anxiety. The '-u' ending marks this as the subject that vanished, placed after its verb in the normal order. The noun is the restless churn of worry, now said to be gone.

  From: The Prophet's Refuge in the Cave →