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يَهْوِي sink in Arabic

يَهْوِي is how you say “sink” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَيَتَكَلَّمُ بِالْكَلِمَةِ يَضْحَكُ بِهَا جُلَسَاؤُهُ يَهْوِي بِهَا أَبْعَدَ مِنَ الثَّرَيَّا

Indeed, a man speaks a word that makes his companions laugh by it, and by it he sinks farther than the Pleiades.

يَهْوِي sinks

A present-tense verb with its 'he' subject built into the shape, used figuratively for 'plunges / falls'. The doer is the man, named inside the verb, and the verb supplies the falling action the rest of the clause measures.

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