لاقَىmet

Example sentences

• فَلَاقَاهُمَا أَبُو جَهْلٍ فَقَالَ يَا أَبَا صَفْوَانَ،

  So Abu Jahl met them and said, "O Abu Safwan,"

  فَلَاقَاهُمَا — so he met them two. A fa- of sequence ('so') on a past verb, with an attached -huma 'the two of them' as object. That -huma is the dual — Arabic's special 'exactly two' pronoun — so it pins the meeting to precisely the two travellers.

  From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →