تَكَلُّفٌeffort

Example sentences

• تَكَلُّفُ تَسْمِيَةِ مَا قَرَأَ الْقَارِئُونَ آيَةً آيَةً عَلَى التَّرْتِيبِ لَعَجَزَ عَنْ ذَلِكَ،

  He took the trouble to name, verse by verse and in order, what the reciters had read because he was unable to do so.

  تَكَلُّفِ — took the trouble. A verbal noun naming the act of taking pains/burdening oneself, here the subject of the long conditional. It heads a possessive pairing with the naming-noun that follows ('the trouble of naming...'). As a noun-of-action it stands for the effort itself.

  From: Public Preaching →