Arabic vocabulary
لَعَلِّيperhaps I in Arabic
لَعَلِّي is how you say “perhaps I” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
وَأخرج من بَين الْبيُوت لعلني أحدث عَنْك الْقلب بالسر خَالِيا
I leave the houses, hoping to speak of you with a heart empty of everything else.
لَعَلِّي — hoping I. 'La'alla', a particle of hope / expectation 'perhaps / hoping', with '-i' (I) attached — 'in hopes that I…'. Like 'inna' it takes an attached pronoun as its subject; it frames the purpose of leaving.
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