لَيَلْطِمْlet him strike

Example sentences

• 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.

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