فَكَّكَloosened in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَقَصْرُ طُولِ النَّهَى، وَلَوْ فَكَّكَهَا بِالِانْتِقَالِ مِنْ حَالٍ إِلَى حَالٍ لَتَنَفُّسٌ عَنْهَا ضِيقُ العُقْدَةِ،

  He shortened the duration of his restraint; had he loosened it by shifting from one state to another, relief from the tightness of the knot would have followed.

  فَكَّكَهَا — he had loosened it. An intensive past-tense verb (the doubled-middle, 'really loosened' shape) with its 'he' subject built in and -ha fused on as the object 'it'. So subject, the heightened action, and object all ride in one word inside the conditional.

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