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تلعن curse in Arabic

تلعن is how you say “curse” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَقَالَ النَّبِي لَا تلعنه فَإِنَّهُ يحب الله وَرَسُوله

The Prophet said, 'Do not curse him, for he loves Allah and His Messenger.'

تَلْعَنْهُ curse him

This is a present-tense verb with 'you' built in and an attached 'him' as object, and its clipped ending shows the jussive shape that this negation triggers for a command. The jussive is how Arabic turns the verb into a prohibition, 'do not curse him'.

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