Arabic vocabulary
تَزَلْ is how you say “cease” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
الَّذِي يَكْسِبُهَا نَشَاطًا لِلْجِدِّ فَكَأَنَّهَا مِنَ الْجِدِّ لَمْ تَزَلْ،
which gives it a zeal for seriousness, so that it seems to have always been serious.
تَزَلْ — cease. A verb in its cut-short (jussive) shape because the negation 'lam' before it forces that ending; literally 'ceased', it pairs with that negation to mean 'has never ceased'. So the trigger for its clipped ending is the 'lam', and the pairing yields an unbroken-state sense.
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