طَالَlasted long in Arabic

Example sentences

• وعلى عمر مخرج الرسول من دار الخيزران وقد طال ما خبي،

  And upon Umar, who led the Prophet out from the house of Al-Khazeran, and indeed what was hidden lasted long.

  طَالَ — lasted long. A past-tense verb whose subject is the 'what' clause that follows, in the usual verb-first order. The verb means to grow long in time, so the line reads that what was hidden 'lasted long'.

  From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →