هَزَأَmock

Example sentences

• فقال يا عبد الله لا تستهزئ بى فقلت لا أستهزئ بك، فأخذه كله فاستاقه فلم يترك منه شيئاً،

  He said: 'O Servant of Allah, do not mock me!' I replied: 'I am not mocking you.' So he took everything and drove it all away, leaving nothing behind.

  تَسْتَهْزِئْ — you mock. This is a present-tense verb pulled into the cut-short (jussive) shape by the forbidding 'not' before it, with 'you' in the ending. The clipped form marks it as a prohibition, 'do not mock', addressed to the speaker.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →

• فقال يا عبد الله لا تستهزئ بى فقلت لا أستهزئ بك، فأخذه كله فاستاقه فلم يترك منه شيئاً،

  He said: 'O Servant of Allah, do not mock me!' I replied: 'I am not mocking you.' So he took everything and drove it all away, leaving nothing behind.

  أَسْتَهْزِئُ — mocking. This is a present-tense verb with 'I' in the ending, sitting under the negation as 'I do not mock'. It governs the following phrase as the person not being mocked, completing the denial.

  From: Three Men Saved by Sincerity →