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نَشَبْ it was long in Arabic

نَشَبْ is how you say “it was long” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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

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