فَلَيْتَ I wish in Arabic
فَلَيْتَ is how you say “I wish” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
هَيْهَاتَ، رَحَلَ كُلٌّ بِمَا فِيهِ، فَلَيْتَ اَلذُّنُوبَ إِذَا تَخَلَّتْ خَلَتْ
Alas! Everything has departed with what is in it; I wish that the sins, when they depart, would vanish.
فَلَيْتَ I wish
The connector fa- ('so') fused to a wishing particle that means 'if only/would that'. The particle expresses an unreal longing and forces the noun after it into the accusative as the thing wished about; the fa- chains this wish onto the lament.
The English is machine-translated.
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