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لَعَلَّيَ perhaps I may in Arabic

لَعَلَّيَ is how you say “perhaps I may” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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