Arabic vocabulary
How to say “run” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
جز فقد أطفأ نورك لهبي،
Run, for your light has extinguished my flame.
جِزْ — run. This is a bare command, 'go / pass on', addressed to a single person. Arabic forms an order by reducing the verb to this stripped imperative shape with no separate word for 'you'; the listener is understood from the form alone.
From: The Story of Prophet Joseph →OpenArabic teaches words like جِزْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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