Arabic vocabulary
أَطْفَأَ is how you say “extinguish” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فتسيرُ بنورٍ لا يُطفئه صخبُ الدنيا
So you walk with a light that is not extinguished by the noise of the world.
يُطْفِئُهُ — extinguishes it. Present 'puts it out, extinguishes it', with 'it' attached pointing back to the light. With the noun 'light' indefinite, this whole verb works as 'which... extinguishes it'; its subject 'the noise' comes next.
From: Turning Daily Words into Worship →جز فقد أطفأ نورك لهبي،
Run, for your light has extinguished my flame.
أَطْفَأَ — have extinguished. A past-tense verb whose doer is 'your light', stated after it in the usual verb-first order. Its singular form agrees with that single following subject, and the past tense presents the extinguishing as an accomplished fact.
From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →OpenArabic teaches words like أَطْفَأَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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