Arabic vocabulary
لَيَلْطِمْ is how you say “let him strike” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَإِذَا شَتَمْتَهُ فَلَيَّهِمْ إِلَى فَلَيَلْطِمْنِي
So if you insult him, let him hurry toward me and strike me.
فَلَيَلْطِمْنِي — so let him strike me. A 'let him' command in the clipped jussive shape, with an attached -ni making 'me' its object. So the order is for the boy to strike the speaker, the object pronoun naming the target.
From: Sheba's Garden and Destruction →OpenArabic teaches words like لَيَلْطِمْ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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