Arabic vocabulary
يَلْبَثْremain
How to say “remain” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَلَمْ يَلْبَثْ الْقَوْمُ إِلَّا قَلِيلاً حَتَّى أَتَى الْجُرْذُ عَلَى الرَدْمِ
So the people had not remained except a little until the rat came onto the mound.
يَلْبَثْ — remain. Present-shaped verb of remaining, pulled into its clipped jussive ending by the 'did not' before it. The pairing says they did not linger.
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