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مَرّ
to pass, to pass by /ˈmar.ra/
verbA1#511 most common
Also: to elapse (of time), to go past, to go through (an experience)
Example sentences
مَرَّ الوَقْتُ بِسُرعَةٍ.
Time passed quickly.
مَرَرْتُ بِجانِبِ بَيتِكَ أَمسِ.
I passed by your house yesterday.
يَمُرُّ القِطارُ مِن هُنا كُلَّ صَباحٍ.
The train passes through here every morning.
مَرَّتْ سَنَواتٌ طَويلةٌ قَبلَ أَنْ نَلتَقِيَ مَرّةً أُخرى.
Long years passed before we met again.
لَم يَمُرَّ يَومٌ واحِدٌ دونَ أَنْ أَتَذَكَّرَ تِلكَ المَدينةَ.
Not a single day passed without me remembering that city.
مَرَّتِ البِلادُ بِأَزماتٍ اقتِصاديّةٍ خانِقةٍ قَبلَ أَنْ تَستَعيدَ عافِيَتَها.
The country went through suffocating economic crises before it recovered its health.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَمُرُّ | مَرَرْتُ | سَأَمُرُّ |
| 2sg | تَمُرُّ | مَرَرْتَ | سَتَمُرُّ |
| 3sg | يَمُرُّ | مَرَّ | سَيَمُرُّ |
| 1pl | نَمُرُّ | مَرَرْنا | سَنَمُرُّ |
| 2pl | تَمُرُّونَ | مَرَرْتُمْ | سَتَمُرُّونَ |
| 3pl | يَمُرُّونَ | مَرُّوا | سَيَمُرُّونَ |
Word family
مُرورpassing; road traffic
مَمَرّcorridor, passageاِستَمَرَّto continue
مُستَمِرّcontinuous, ongoing
مَرّةa time, an instance
Etymology
The verb comes from the Semitic triliteral root م-ر-ر (m-r-r), whose core sense is passing or moving through. The same root carries a homonymous sense of bitterness, seen in مُرّ (bitter). In Arabic the passing sense produced a wide family of words for traffic, corridors, instances of time, and continuation.
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