هَزْلِjest

Example sentences

• وأقسم على كون القرآن حقًا وصدقًا فقال ﴿إِنَّهُ لَقَوْلٌ فَصْلٌ وَمَا هُوَ بِالْهَزْلِ﴾

  He swore about the Quran being true and truthful, saying 'It is a decisive word and not a jest.'

  بِالْهَزْلِ — a jest. A preposition bi- fused onto the definite noun 'the jest', forming the predicate of the negator: '...is not a jest'. The bi- here is an extra emphasizer that this negation pattern adds to its predicate; it does not mean 'with', it just strengthens the denial.

  From: Witnesses to God's Word →

• قَالَ أَبُو فِرَاسٍ أَرْوَحُ الْقَلْبَ بِبَعْضِ الْهَزْلِ تَجَاهُلًا مِنِّي بِغَيْرِ جَهْلٍ،

  Abu Firas said: I enliven the heart with some levity, feigning indifference, but not out of ignorance.

  الْهَزْلِ — the levity. The al- makes this definite, 'the' levity, and it completes the 'some of...' pairing as its owner. Sitting in the owned-by slot, it carries the genitive 'of' ending, locking the phrase into 'some of the levity'.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →