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ضَحْكٌ laughter in Arabic

ضَحْكٌ is how you say “laughter” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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

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