Arabic vocabulary

اِحْتَسَبَexpect in Arabic

اِحْتَسَبَ is how you say “expect” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

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.
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