Arabic vocabulary
طَوْلlong duration in Arabic
طَوْل is how you say “long duration” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَأَلْهَاهُمْ طَوْلُ الْأَمَلِ،
And the long duration of hope distracted them.
طَوْلُ — long duration. A noun standing as the postponed subject of the verb before it, the thing that did the distracting, so it takes the doer-style nominative ending. It heads a possessive chain, owning the next noun to build 'length of...'.
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