تَنْزِلُcome down

Example sentences

• وَلَمْ تَدْرِ مِنْ أَيِّ الْمُحَلِّينَ تَنْزِلُ؟

  And she did not know from which of the places it would come down.

  تَنْزِلُ — it will come down. A present-tense verb carrying its 'it/she' subject inside, read here as a future, 'would come down', since Arabic's present stretches to anticipated events. Its referent is left open by the poem, so part of reading it is sensing what unseen descent, of death or fate, is meant.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →