استغرق

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Arabic

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Root
غ ر ق (ḡ r q)
8 terms

Pronunciation

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Verb

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اِسْتَغْرَقَ (istaḡraqa) X (non-past يَسْتَغْرِقُ (yastaḡriqu), verbal noun اِسْتِغْرَاق (istiḡrāq))

  1. (transitive) to absorb; to engross; to overpower
  2. (transitive) 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.
  3. (intransitive) to be immersed, to be absorbed [with فِي () ‘in something’]
  4. (intransitive) to sink [with فِي () ‘into something, e.g. sleep’]

Conjugation

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Further reading

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