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افْتَرَى lie in Arabic

افْتَرَى is how you say “lie” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَإِنَّ كَمَالَ عِلْمِهِ وَقُدْرَتِهِ وَحِكْمَتِهِ تَأْبَى أَنْ يُقِرَّ مَنْ تَقَوَّلَ عَلَيْهِ وَافْتَرَى عَلَيْهِ وَأَضَلَّ عِبَادَهُ وَاسْتَبَاحَ دِمَاءَ مَنْ كَذَّبَهُ وَحَرِيمَهُمْ وَأَمْوَالَهُمْ،

For His perfect knowledge, power, and wisdom refuse that He would approve of someone who fabricated against Him, misled His servants, justified the bloodshed of those who denied him, their sanctities, and their wealth.

وَافْتَرَى and fabricated lies against

This joins 'and' to a completed-action verb 'he invented lies', continuing the description of the person with a second deed. Its subject is carried inside; the 'and' links it to 'fabricated', stacking the wrongs.

From Proof of the True Messenger

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More example sentences

فإن كمال علمه وقدرته وحكمته تأبى أن يقر من تقول عليه وافترى عليه

For His perfect knowledge, power, and wisdom refuse to approve one who falsely attributes to Him and fabricates against Him.

وَافْتَرَى and fabricates

The conjunction adds a second verb to the person's description, he fabricated, also a past form sharing the relative word as its subject. Coordinating two verbs this way lets the one relative 'who' do both deeds.

From False Prophets

افترت اليهود والنصارى وجاحد القرآن أخس،

The Jews and Christians fabricated, and the denier of the Quran is more vile.

افْتَرَتِ she fabricated

A past-tense verb carrying a feminine ending that agrees with its subject 'the Jews', treated here as a single collective group. Arabic verbs sit before their subjects and bend to match, and a collective like this often takes the feminine singular agreement.

From God's Attributes

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