Arabic vocabulary
تَوَقَّفَتْstop
How to say “stop” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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.
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