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يَنْفِضُ shakes it off in Arabic

يَنْفِضُ is how you say “shakes it off” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

قَالَ فَرَأْتُ الْبَرَاءَ يَضْرِبُ إِحْدَى يَدَيْهِ عَلَى الأُخْرَى يَنْفِضُ،

He said: I saw al-Bara' strike one of his hands against the other and shake it off.

يَنْفِضُ shakes it off

A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject built in, painting a further ongoing action of al-Bara', 'shaking it off'. Like the earlier present it describes activity in progress at the time of watching. The object 'it' is understood from context rather than written out.

From A Night with the Prophet

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