Arabic vocabulary
How to say “flee” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
من يُحسِن الصمتَ لا يهرب من الحوار، بل يختار لحظتَه كي لا تُفسِدَ العجلةُ ما يُصلِحه البيان
He who masters silence does not flee dialogue, but chooses his moment so that haste does not spoil what clarity mends.
يَهْرُبُ — flee. 'flees / runs away,' negated. It takes 'from' next — one 'flees FROM' a thing. The silent master does not RUN from dialogue; his quiet is chosen, not cowardly.
From: On Silence →فَإِذَا اسْتَعَذْتَ مِنْهُ هَرَبَ مِنْكَ وَلَمْ يَقْدِرْ عَلَى قَطْعِ طَرِيقِ الدِّينِ
When you seek refuge from him, he flees from you and cannot cut off the path of religion.
هَرَبَ — he fled. A past-tense verb ('he fled') with its 'he' subject built in, pointing back to Iblis. It is the result of the 'when' condition: the moment you seek refuge, his fleeing follows.
From: Seeking Refuge from the Devil →OpenArabic teaches words like هَرَبَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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