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Root Verb

ضل

dall

to stay

ض ل ل

doubled

Doubled verb: to stay, or to keep doing something (dall yi7ki, he kept talking).

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Past Affirmative

أنا

I — "I stayed"

"to stay" in the other dialects

Moroccan Darija

بقى

bqa

Egyptian Arabic

قعد

ʔa3ad

Modern Standard Arabic

بَقِيَ

baqiya