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تَسْوِيفِ delaying in Arabic

تَسْوِيفِ is how you say “delaying” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَالْأَمَانِيِ الْبَاطِلَةِ وَالْغُرُورِ وَالتَسْوِيفِ بِالْعَمَلِ

False hopes, self-deception, and delaying action.

وَالتَسْوِيفِ and the delaying

Two pieces: wa- ('and') continues the list, and the noun is the verbal noun for 'delaying', the naming of an act. It heads a possessive pairing with the next word, so it links to 'action' to mean 'the delaying of action'.

From Three States of the Heart

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