Arabic vocabulary
أَقْلَعset sail
How to say “set sail” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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