Arabic vocabulary

أَصْطَلِيI began to warm myself in Arabic

أَصْطَلِي is how you say “I began to warm myself” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فَجَعَلْتُ أَصْطَلِي مَعَهُمْ عَلَى نِيرَانِهِم
So I began to warm myself with them on their fires.
أَصْطَلِي — I began to warm myself. This is a present-tense verb with 'I' built into its prefix, paired with the 'began' verb before it to mean 'I started to warm myself'. The present shape after 'began' is how Arabic shows an action getting going. The reflexive sense is that the warming is done to oneself.
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Related words

جَعَلْتُI began to
مَعَهُمْwith them
عَلَىupon
نِيرَانِهِمtheir fires

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