Arabic vocabulary
أَقْلَعset sail in Arabic
أَقْلَع is how you say “set sail” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَلَمَّا هبت ريَاح السحر أقلعت تِلْكَ المراكب
When the winds of dawn blew, those vessels set sail.
أَقْلَعَتْ — set sail. A past-tense (form IV) verb 'put out to sea / set sail' with the feminine '-at' agreeing with 'those vessels' — the result of the condition. The ships departed.
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