اِحْتَسَبَexpect

Example sentences

• فَأَتَاهُ مَا لَمْ يَحْتَسِبْ مِمَّنْ يَأْنَفُ النَّظَرَ إِلَيْهِ،

  Then something he had not expected came to him from one who refused to look at him.

  يَحْتَسِبْ — expect. A present-shaped verb of reckoning, clipped into the short form the negator forces, its sense thrown into the past to give 'did not expect'. Built on a pattern with an inner 't', it means to count on or anticipate. Its 'he' subject is built in: he never saw it coming.

  From: Vigilance Against Worldly Deception →