طَلَعَto appear

Example sentences

• فَلَوْ قَدْ طَلَعَ عَلَيْهِ صُبْحُ الْعِلْمِ اِفْتَضَحَ

  So if the dawn of knowledge had risen upon him, he would have been exposed.

  طَلَعَ — it rose. A past-tense verb, the standard one for the rising of dawn or a heavenly body, sitting inside the 'if' clause. It is the condition whose subject, the dawn, follows it.

  From: Finding the Prophet's Way →

• بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ جُلُوسٌ عِنْدَ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه و سلم ذَاتَ يَوْمٍ، إذْ طَلَعَ عَلَيْنَا رَجُلٌ شَدِيدُ بَيَاضِ الثِّيَابِ،

  While we were sitting in the presence of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, one day a man with very white clothes appeared to us.

  طَلَعَ — he appeared. A past-tense verb, 'came upon / appeared', with its subject ('a man') named later in the sentence. It is the sudden action introduced by 'when suddenly', the stranger's arrival.

  From: When Gabriel Came to Teach →