Arabic vocabulary
يَمْزَحُ is how you say “jokes” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَيَمْزَحُ مَعَ الصَّبِيَّانِ الْمِلَّاحِ ،
And he jokes with the handsome boys,
وَيَمْزَحُ — and he jokes. Two pieces: the connector wa- adding a parallel action, and a present-tense verb 'jokes', third-person singular, 'he' built in. The wa- strings this onto the chatting, continuing the picture of his idle behaviour.
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