أَقْبَلَتْ drew near in Arabic
أَقْبَلَتْ is how you say “drew near” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
أَقْبَلَتْ أَغْبَاشُ الظُّلُمَاتِ فَعَادَتِ الأَهْوَاءُ تُنْشِئُ بَدْعًا
The darkened masses drew near, and desires returned, bringing forth innovations.
أَقْبَلَتْ drew near
A past-tense verb whose feminine-singular ending encodes the subject as a single feminine thing, the one that follows. The doer is carried by the ending, so no separate pronoun is needed.
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أَقْبَلَتْ تَطْعَمُنِي،
She came forward and fed me.
أَقْبَلَتْ she came forward
A past-tense verb with the -at ending marking 'she' as the doer. It opens a pair of linked actions by the mother and, by sitting next to the following verb without a connector, sets up a 'she came forward and...' sequence where the second verb describes what she did on approaching.
حَتَّى أَقْبَلَتْ كَتِيبَةٌ لَمْ يَرَ مِثْلَهَا،
Until a company arrived unlike any he had ever seen,
أَقْبَلَتْ it arrived
A past-tense verb 'came forward / arrived' carrying the feminine '-at' ending, agreeing with the feminine 'company' that follows. Coming after 'until', it supplies the arrival the whole build-up was leading to.