Arabic vocabulary
تَصَافَّengage one another in Arabic
تَصَافَّ is how you say “engage one another” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
فَلَمَّا تَصَافَّ الْقَوْمُ كَانَ سَيْفُ عَامِرٍ فِيهِ قِصَرٌ،
When the people engaged one another, Amir's sword had a short dagger in it.
تَصَافَّ — engaged one another. A mutual-action verb form: the shape itself builds in the idea that the two sides did this to each other, so a single Arabic word carries 'lined up against one another'. English needs a phrase like 'engaged one another' to spell out what the verb pattern already encodes.
From: The Martyr's Reward →
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