يضحكmake laugh

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ يضْحك النَّبِي

  And he used to make the Prophet laugh.

  يُضْحِكُ — he makes laugh. This is a present-tense verb with a built-in 'he' subject, in a pattern that adds a causing sense, 'to make laugh'. Working with the earlier 'was', it carries the habitual 'he used to make laugh', with its object named next.

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