Arabic vocabulary
مَكَثَremain
How to say “remain” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَمَكَثَ فِيهِ ثَلاَثَ لَيَالٍ
So he stayed in it three nights.
فَمَكَثَ — so he stayed. The fa- carries the story forward, 'so / then', riding on a past verb whose 'he' is inside it. It moves to the next event, his stay; the joiner marks sequence, and the subject is the Prophet implied from before.
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