نَازَعdispute

Example sentences

• فإن جاء آخر ينازعه، فاضربوا عنق الآخر

  If another comes to dispute him, strike the neck of the latter.

  يُنَازِعُهُ — to dispute him. A present-tense verb in the mutual pattern with 'him' attached as object, 'disputing him', the 'he' subject inside. It describes the manner of the newcomer's coming, a contesting; the reciprocal pattern fits a two-sided quarrel, and the suffix marks the first leader as the one contested.

  From: A Prophet Warns His People →