Arabic vocabulary
اِحْتَالُوا is how you say “be cunning” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَقَالَ عَبْدُ اللَّهِ اِحْتَالُوا لِأَنْفُسِكُمْ
Abdullah said, "Be cunning for yourselves."
اِحْتَالُوا — be cunning. A command form aimed at a group, 'you all do this', with the plural addressees built into the verb's shape. As an order it drops to the bare jussive ending, the clipped form Arabic uses for direct commands.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like اِحْتَالُوا through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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