Arabic vocabulary
قَلَبَturn in Arabic
قَلَبَ is how you say “turn” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
قال تقلب الكيس حتى يكون موضع التسرب من فوق، فلا يقع منه شيء
He said: Turn the bag so that the leaking spot is on top, and nothing will fall out of it.
تَقْلِبُ — you turn. A present-tense verb 'turn' with 'you' built in, used here as a gentle command, 'you turn it'; Arabic can phrase an instruction with the plain present rather than the clipped imperative.
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