نَشَبْit was long

Example sentences

• ثُمَّ لَمْ يَنْشَبْ وَرَقَةُ أَنْ تُوُفِّيَ،

  Then it was not long before Waraqah died.

  يَنْشَبْ — it was long. A present-shaped verb dragged to past meaning by 'lam' and clipped into the jussive (note the bare ending). With the negation it forms 'did not tarry / was not long', an idiom that says the next event followed quickly; the named subject comes after, in verb-first order.

  From: The Night of Revelation and Consolation →