بَرَقَbreak

Example sentences

• أَنْتَظِرُ اِسْتِيقاظَهُمَا حَتَّى بَرَقَ الْفَجْرُ،

  I waited for their awakening until the dawn brightened.

  بَرَقَ — began to brighten. A past-tense verb with its 'it' subject built in, describing dawn breaking into light. It supplies the event reached at the endpoint named by the particle before it, the point the long wait ended at.

  From: Trapped and Delivered →

• فلبثت والقدح على يدى أنتظر استيقاظهما حتى برق الفجر والصبية يتضاغون عند قدمى فاستيقظا فشربا غبوقهما

  So I waited with the vessel in my hand until dawn broke, and the children were crying at my feet. They then awoke and drank their evening drink.

  بَرَقَ — dawn broke. This is a past-tense verb meaning the light flashed/broke, with its subject named right after in the normal verb-first order. It sets the breaking of dawn in completed past time as the endpoint his waiting reached.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →