Arabic vocabulary
شَمَّsmelled
How to say “smelled” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
ولبسوا الثوب النظيف وشموا الطيب وأمسكوا عن الحركات،
They would wear clean clothes, smell perfume, and refrain from movements.
شَمُّوا — they smelled. A past-tense verb with its plural subject 'they' built into the ending, so no separate pronoun appears. It continues the chain of habitual past actions, the doer carried inside the verb.
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