Arabic vocabulary
غَلَسٍdawn
How to say “dawn” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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