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اِسْتَفْتَحَ to begin in Arabic

اِسْتَفْتَحَ is how you say “to begin” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَاسْتَفْتَحْتُ النَّحْلَ،

So I began with the chapter The Bee.

فَاسْتَفْتَحْتُ so I began

A connector fa- ('so') fused to the past verb 'I opened/began', with the first-person 'I' in its -tu ending. The fa- threads this onto the rising as the next move. The verb here carries a 'began-reciting' sense, and its object, the chapter, follows.

From Mothers and the Companions

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The app’s sheet for the word كِتَاب: book, an audio button, and the root it comes from.

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