Arabic vocabulary
بَقَاءَstaying in Arabic
بَقَاءَ is how you say “staying” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَهِيَ تَتَمَنَّى بَقَاءَكَ، وَأَنْتَ تَتَمَنَّى فِرَاقَهَا
She wishes you would stay, while you wish to be apart from her.
بَقَاءَكَ — your staying. This action-noun, 'your staying / survival', has the 'your' pronoun on its end and is the object of 'wishes', the thing she longs for. Arabic uses such an action-noun where English would say 'that you stay'. The -ka marks the man as the one whose survival she wants.
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