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Root Verb

عرف

3araf

to know

ع ر ف

A standard Form I sound verb. In Gulf Arabic, the present tense prefix vowel is often 'a' (ta3rif, ya3rif) due to the guttural first root letter.

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Past Affirmative

أنا

I — "I knew"

"to know" in the other dialects