تَكَلَّمُspeak

Example sentences

• وَكَثِيرٌ مِمَّنْ يَتَكَلَّمُ فِي الحَقِيقَةِ فَيَشْهَدُهَا

  And many of those who speak about the truth testify to it.

  يَتَكَلَّمُ — he speaks. A present-tense verb 'speaks' with its 'he' subject built in, the action that defines the people just picked out. Its plain present form marks a habitual, characterizing act.

  From: What Worship Really Means →

• 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.

  لَيَتَكَلَّمُ — indeed, speaks. A verb fronted by an emphatic 'la-', the 'surely / truly' marker that answers the inna opener, attached to a present-tense verb whose 'he' subject is built in. So the la- stresses the action while the verb carries the speaking, 'he surely speaks'.

  From: Permissible Laughter and Conduct →