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بُرِّيِ sharpening in Arabic

بُرِّيِ is how you say “sharpening” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

فَجَعَلْتُ مِنَ الْاِسْتِعْدَادِ لِلِّقَائِهِمْ قِطَعَاتِ الْوَرَقِ، وَبُرِّيِ الْأَقْلَامِ، وَأَحْزِمَةَ الدَّفَاتِرِ؛

So I made from the preparation for meeting them readying sheets of paper, sharpening the pens, and bundling the notebooks;

وَبُرِّيِ and sharpening

This token fuses the linking wa- with an action noun, 'and the sharpening of...'. The wa- adds a second preparation to the list, and the action noun heads an 'of' link to the pens that follow. It packages the act of sharpening as a thing in the list.

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