Arabic vocabulary

يَغْلِبَprevail in Arabic

يَغْلِبَ is how you say “prevail” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَلَيْسَ الْعَجَبُ أَنْ يَغْلِبَ، إِنَّمَا الْعَجَبُ أَنْ يُغْلَبَ
It is not surprising that one should prevail; what is surprising is that one should be overcome.
يَغْلِبَ — one should prevail. A present verb pushed into its subjunctive shape by the 'that' before it; the changed ending is how you know it is governed by that particle. It is active voice (the subject doing the prevailing) and has a general, unnamed subject: 'that one prevail'.
From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →

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