Arabic vocabulary
أَشَارُواthey pointed
How to say “they pointed” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
كُلَّمَا هَمَمْتُ بِهِمْ أَشَارُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ تَعَالَىٰ
Whenever I intended against them, they would point to Allah, the Exalted.
أَشَارُوا — they pointed. A past verb of pointing carrying a plural '-u' suffix as its subject, 'they pointed'. After the 'whenever', it reads as the repeated response, each time they gestured. The ending supplies the third-person plural 'they'. It leads into the 'to God' phrase naming where they pointed.
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