Arabic vocabulary
غَلَسٍdawn in Arabic
غَلَسٍ is how you say “dawn” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَيَبِيتَانِ فِي رِسْلِهَا حَتَّى يَنْعِقَ بِهَا عَامِرُ بْنُ فُهَيْرَةِ بِغَلَسٍ،
So they two spent the night in its pen until Amir ibn Fuhayrah cried out with it at dawn.
بِغَلَسٍ — at dawn. The bi- marks a time-circumstance 'at/in', fixing the dimness of dawn as when the call happens; it holds the noun in the 'of' ending. The word answers 'when?' for the calling.
From: The Secret Migration →
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