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هَرَّب
to smuggle /ˈhar.ra.ba/
verbA2#1353 most common
Also: to help (someone) escape, to spirit away, to sneak across a border
Example sentences
هَرَّبَ الرَّجُلُ الذَّهَبَ.
The man smuggled the gold.
هَرَّبَ التُّجَّارُ البَضائِعَ عَبْرَ الحُدودِ.
The merchants smuggled the goods across the border.
حاوَلَ أَنْ يُهَرِّبَ المُخَدِّراتِ لكِنَّ الشُّرْطَةَ قَبَضَتْ عَلَيْهِ.
He tried to smuggle the drugs, but the police arrested him.
هَرَّبوا السِّلاحَ إلى المُسَلَّحينَ في جُنْحِ اللَّيْلِ.
They smuggled the weapons to the militants under cover of night.
اتُّهِمَ بِأَنَّهُ هَرَّبَ آثاراً نادِرَةً وَباعَها في السُّوقِ السَّوْداءِ.
He was accused of smuggling rare antiquities and selling them on the black market.
لَوْلا أَنَّ الحارِسَ هَرَّبَ السَّجينَ خارِجَ الزِّنزانَةِ لَما نَجا مِنَ الإعْدامِ.
Had the guard not spirited the prisoner out of the cell, he would not have escaped execution.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُهَرِّبُ | هَرَّبْتُ | سَأُهَرِّبُ |
| 2sg | تُهَرِّبُ | هَرَّبْتَ | سَتُهَرِّبُ |
| 3sg | يُهَرِّبُ | هَرَّبَ | سَيُهَرِّبُ |
| 1pl | نُهَرِّبُ | هَرَّبْنا | سَنُهَرِّبُ |
| 2pl | تُهَرِّبونَ | هَرَّبْتُمْ | سَتُهَرِّبونَ |
| 3pl | يُهَرِّبونَ | هَرَّبوا | سَيُهَرِّبونَ |
Word family
Etymology
هَرَّب comes from the Semitic root h-r-b, which carries the idea of fleeing or escaping. The base verb هَرَبَ means to flee. Arabic Form II doubles the middle root letter to add a causative sense, so هَرَّب means to make something flee, that is, to spirit it away or smuggle it.
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