Arabic vocabulary
لَعَلَّيَperhaps I may
How to say “perhaps I may” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ لِأُمْيَّةَ اِنْظُرْ لِيَّ سَاعَةَ خَلْوَةِ لَعَلَّيَ أَنْ أَطُوفَ بِالْبَيْتِ
He said to Umayya, "Find for me a time of seclusion; perhaps I may circumambulate the House."
لَعَلِّي — perhaps I may. A particle of hope, 'perhaps', carrying an attached -i 'I' as the one hoping. It softens the following verb from a flat statement into a wished-for possibility — 'maybe I might...'.
From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →
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