Arabic vocabulary

تَرَقَّىgrow up in Arabic

تَرَقَّى is how you say “grow up” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

والبنين وكم صغر قاسى الأب لأجل الصغار، فلما ترقوا فعقوا والعقوق من الذنوب الكبار،
And the children, how much hardship the father endures for the sake of the young; but when they grow up, they disobey, and disobedience is among the grave sins,
تَرَقَّوْا — they grow up. A past-tense verb on a reflexive pattern meaning 'they rose / climbed up in age', with the plural 'they' subject carried in the ending. The verb shape itself conveys a gradual self-directed rising, here the children growing up, with no separate pronoun word.
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