سرعان

Arabic

Verb

سُرْعَانَ • (surʕāna)

  1. (defective) How quickly! in a short time
    ‏سُرْعَانَ مَا قَرَأَ ٱلْكِتَابَ.‎‎
    surʕāna mā qaraʔa l-kitāba.
    He read the book in a short time.

Usage notes

This word belongs to a special group of words known in Arabic as أَسْمَاء أَفْعَال‎ (ʔasmāʔ ʔafʕāl), plural of اِسْم فِعْل‎ (ism fiʕl), literally noun verbs. They act grammatically as nouns more than verbs, but carry the function of a verb. They do not conjugate, but each word signify a grammatical time on its own, in this case the past/perfective. However, they are different from nouns in that they do not receive declensions and inflections (are in the مَبْنِي‎ (mabnī) state), and some (but not all) do not allow possessive enclitics.

Adjective

سُرْعَان • (surʕān) m pl

  1. masculine plural of سَرِيع‎ (sarīʕ)
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