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هَزَأَ mock in Arabic

هَزَأَ is how you say “mock” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

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More 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.

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.

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