Arabic vocabulary
ذهبت is how you say “departed” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
لَو تغذى الْقلب بالمحبة لذهبت عَنهُ بطنة الشَّهَوَات
If the heart were nourished with love, the gluttony of desires would depart from it.
لَذَهَبَتْ — would depart. The 'la-' answering the 'law' counterfactual, prefixed to a past-tense verb 'went away' with the feminine '-at' agreeing with its subject — 'would have departed'. The 'la-' marks the apodosis.
From: Remembering and Loving God →OpenArabic teaches words like ذهبت through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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