Arabic vocabulary
أَلْهَىdistract
How to say “distract” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
وَأَلْهَاهُمْ طَوْلُ الْأَمَلِ،
And the long duration of hope distracted them.
وَأَلْهَاهُمْ — and distracted them. The wa- links this clause on with 'and', riding on a past-tense verb that carries -hum ('them') as its object. The verb puts its subject afterward in the normal order, so 'distracted them' is stated first and the distractor, named next, completes the thought.
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