Arabic edit

Root
س ف ر (s-f-r)

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Verb edit

أَسْفَرَ (ʔasfara) IV, non-past يُسْفِرُ‎ (yusfiru)

  1. to glow, to beam
  2. (with عَن) to disclose, to reveal
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 74:32-34:
      كَلَّا وَٱلْقَمَرِ وَٱلَّيْلِ إِذْ أَدْبَرَ وَٱلصُّبْحِ إِذَآ أَسْفَرَ
      kallā wal-qamari wallayli ʔiḏ ʔadbara waṣ-ṣubḥi ʔiḏaʔā ʔasfara
      But no! By the moon, and the night as it retreats, and the day as it breaks!
  3. to lead to, to result in [+ عَنْ (object)]
    أَسْفَرَتِ ٱلْحَرْبُ عَنْ مَقْتَلِ ٱلْعَدِيدِ مِنَ ٱلْأَطْفَالِ.
    ʔasfarati l-ḥarbu ʕan maqtali l-ʕadīdi mina l-ʔaṭfāli.
    The war led to numerous deaths of children.
    • 2017 October 29, “السلطات اللبنانية: تحرير ثلاثة مواطنين خطفوا في بغداد”, in Libya Akhbar[1], archived from the original on 29 October 2017:
      وأسفرت العملية التي نفذتها المخابرات العراقية وفق البيان عن «اعتقال بعض الخاطفين وقتل أحدهم خلالها، وتتم ملاحقة بقية أفراد العصابة».
      And the operation which the Iraqi intelligence carried out, led, according to the statement, to “the arrest of a deal of the kidnappers and to the killing of one of them during the course of it, and the pursuit of the rest of the individuals of the gang is proceeding.”

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