Arabic vocabulary
تَوَقَّفَتْstop in Arabic
تَوَقَّفَتْ is how you say “stop” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَلَوْ تَوَقَّفَتْ بِهِمْ رُكَبُ الطَّبْعِ، لَضَجُّوا،
If the course of nature were to pause for them, they would cry out.
توقف — would stop. This past-tense verb is feminine singular to agree with its collective subject, and it forms the if-side of the counterfactual: 'if it were to stop'. The 'if' word colors its past shape as hypothetical.
From: Guarding the Heart from Heedlessness →
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