Arabic vocabulary
مَكَثَremain in Arabic
مَكَثَ is how you say “remain” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
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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