Arabic vocabulary
أَمْزَحُI jest
How to say “I jest” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
أَمْزَحُ فِيهِ مَزْحَ أَهْلِ الْفَضْلِ وَالْمُزْحُ أَحْيَانًا جَلَاءُ الْعَقْلِ
I joke in it as people of merit do, and jesting sometimes clears the mind.
أَمْزَحُ — I jest. A present-tense verb whose 'I' subject is built into its shape, so the speaker is named inside the verb. It opens the line by stating the speaker's own jesting, with no separate 'I' word needed.
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