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زَخْرَفَ adorn in Arabic

زَخْرَفَ is how you say “adorn” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وزخرفوه بعبارات موجودة في كلام العلماء قد نطقوا بها،

And they adorned it with phrases found in the speech of scholars who have uttered them.

وَزَخْرَفُوهُ And they adorned it

'and they gilded, dressed it up' — 'wa' plus past 'they adorned', the -u marking 'they', 'it' attached; form-II 'embellish'.

From Misguided Methodology

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أَوْ زَخْرَفَ الْمَوَاعِظَ فَضَيَّقَ أَعْيُنَ شَبَكَتِهِ

Or he embellished the admonitions and narrowed the meshes of his net.

زخرفَ he embellished

A past-tense verb holding its own 'he' subject and reaching for the object after it. It opens this third figure's portrait by naming what he did to his words, with the doer carried inside the verb, not stated apart.

From Guidance for the Seeker

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