استغرق

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Arabic

Root
غ ر ق (ḡ-r-q)

Pronunciation

Verb

اِسْتَغْرَقَ (istaḡraqa) X, non-past يَسْتَغْرِقُ‎ (yastaḡriqu)

  1. to absorb; to engross; to overpower
  2. to take, to take up; to occupy (time)
    أَحْيَانًا تَسْتَغْرِقُ ٱلْمُحَادَثَةُ ٱلْهَاتِفِيَّةُ أَكْثَرَ مِنْ سَاعَةٍ.
    ʔaḥyānan tastaḡriqu l-muḥādaṯatu l-hātifiyyatu ʔakṯara min sāʕatin.
    Sometimes the phone conversation takes more than an hour.
    اِسْتَغْرَقَتِ ٱلرِّحْلَةُ شَهْرَيْنِ لِلْوُصُولِ إِلَى مَكَّةَ.
    istaḡraqati r-riḥlatu šahrayni lilwuṣūli ʔilā makkata.
    The journey took two months to reach Mecca.

Conjugation

Further reading

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “غرق”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN