ضَحْكٌlaughter

Example sentences

• فَإِنْ قَالَ قَائِلٌ ذِكْرُ حِكَايَاتِ الْحُمْقَىٰ وَالْمَغْفِلِينَ يُوجِبُ الضَّحْكَ،

  If someone says: telling the stories of fools and the gullible causes laughter,

  الضَّحْكَ — laughter. The al- makes this definite, 'the' laughter, a noun built from a verb (an action-as-noun). It is the receiver-of-the-action of the causative verb before it, so it wears the accusative object ending, marking it as what is caused.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →