طَوْلlong duration

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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