Arabic vocabulary
تَكَلَّمْspeak
How to say “speak” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
لَمْ يَتَكَلَّمْ فِي الْمَهْدِ إِلَّا ثَلَاثَةٌ عِيسَى،
No one spoke in the cradle except three, Jesus,
يَتَكَلَّمْ — speak. A present-form verb forced into the clipped jussive shape by the negation-particle before it, reading as a past 'spoke'. The trimmed ending is the visible sign of that particle's grip; together they mean 'did not speak'.
From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →
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