هَزْلِ jest in Arabic
هَزْلِ 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﴾
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.
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More example sentences
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'.