تَفْتُقُquicken

Example sentences

• وَعَنْ الأَصْمَعِيِّ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ الرَّشِيدَ يَقُولُ النَّوَادِرُ تَشْحَذُ الأَذْهَانَ وَتَفْتُقُ الآذَانَ

  And from al-Asma'i: I heard al-Rashid say, "Anecdotes sharpen minds and quicken ears."

  وَتَفْتُقُ — and quicken. Front wa- is the joiner 'and'; the verb is present tense in the feminine-singular shape that Arabic pairs with the non-human plural 'anecdotes'. So the wa- links a second action to the first, both verbs agreeing with the inanimate plural subject.

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