Arabic vocabulary
شَنَّ is how you say “launch” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فلم يبق لِلِّصِّ إلا البيت الثالث، فهو الذي يَشُنُّ عليه الغارة
So the thief is left with only the third house, which he launches an attack on.
يَشُنُّ — he launches. A present-tense verb 'mounts / launches', subject 'he' (the thief) inside, the action done to the house. The doubled final root gives the energetic 'press an attack' sense.
From: Repelling the Devil →OpenArabic teaches words like شَنَّ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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