Arabic vocabulary
يَنْفِضُshakes it off
How to say “shakes it off” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
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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