هَزْل jest in Arabic
هَزْل is how you say “jest” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وأقسم على كون القرآن حقًا وصدقًا فقال ﴿إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلٌ فَصْلٌ وَمَا هُوَ بِالْهَزْلِ﴾
And He swore that the Quran is true and real, saying, 'Indeed, it is a decisive word, and it is not light talk.'
بِالْهَزْلِ light talk
A preposition 'with' fused to the noun 'the joking/idle talk', forming the predicate of the negation: it is not in the category of jest. The 'with' is an emphatic predicate-marker after a negative, stressing 'by no means jest'.
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وأقسم على كون القرآن حقًا وصدقًا فقال ﴿إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلٌ فَصْلٌ وَمَا هُوَ بِالْهَزْلِ﴾
And He swore to the truth and authenticity of the Qur'an, saying: "Indeed, it is a decisive word, and it is not a jest."
بِالْهَزْلِ a jest.
A preposition 'with' fused to the noun 'the jest/idle talk', the predicate of the negation: not in the category of jest. The 'with' is an emphatic predicate-marker after a negative, stressing 'by no means jest'.
وأقسم على كون القرآن حقًا وصدقًا فقال ﴿إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلٌ فَصْلٌ وَمَا هُوَ بِالْهَزْلِ﴾
And He swore concerning the truth and authenticity of the Quran, saying: 'Indeed, it is a decisive word, and it is not a jest.'
بِالْهَزْلِ a jest
This fuses an extra 'with' marker onto 'the jest', the predicate of 'it is not...'. After the negator ma, Arabic often adds this redundant 'with' onto the predicate noun as a stylistic reinforcement of the denial, giving 'it is in no way a jest'. The word is genitive from that added preposition.