مَلِيّ long period in Arabic
مَلِيّ is how you say “long period” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ثُمَّ انْطَلَقَ، فَلَبِثْتُ مَلِيًّا، ثُمَّ قَالَ يَا عُمَرُ أَتَدْرِي مَنْ السَّائِلُ؟
Then he departed, and I stayed for a long period. Then he said: 'O Umar, do you know who the questioner was?'
مَلِيًّا for a long period
An adverb-like noun 'a long while' in the accusative, telling how long the staying lasted. Arabic uses this bare accusative to express duration without a preposition, the case doing the work English would give to 'for'. It modifies the verb of staying.
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