قَلَّ became scarce in Arabic
قَلَّ is how you say “became scarce” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَلهَذَا قل وارده الْمُحب يهرب إِلَى الْعُزْلَة وَالْخلْوَة بمحبوبه
For this reason, few come to it. The lover flees to solitude and seclusion with his beloved.
قَلَّ he rarely did
A past-tense verb 'became few / were few', its subject coming next — 'few are…'. It states the scarcity that follows from love being a pathless spring.
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More example sentences
قَلَّ عَرَبِيٌّ نَشَأَ بِهَا مِثْلَهُ
Few Arabs who grew up in it were like him.
قَلَّ were few
A past verb expressing scarcity, 'were few', which heads the sentence and sets up a 'rarely was there...' frame. It governs the noun that follows as its subject and colours the whole statement as a claim of rarity.