اشْتَغَلَ busy in Arabic
اشْتَغَلَ is how you say “busy” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
أرى فقهاء هذا العصر طُرًّا أضاعوا العلم واشتغلوا بلِمْ لِمْ
I see all the jurists of this era have neglected knowledge and are busy with 'why, why.'
وَاشْتَغَلُوا and busy
'and busied themselves' — 'wa' plus past 'they occupied themselves', the -u marking 'they'; form-VIII.
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وكلما اشتغل بالشهوات، كدر قلبه، واشتبه عليه الأمر
But the more he engages in desires, the murkier his heart becomes, and things become confused for him.
اشْتَغَلَ he occupies himself
A past-tense verb, 'busies himself', carrying its own 'he' subject. Under the correlation its past shape reads as a recurring present, and what he busies himself with is named in the following 'with' phrase.