حَكَى speak in Arabic
حَكَى is how you say “speak” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
هكذا تشهدُ لغةُ العرب؛ فلا يُحكى بالقولِ إلا كلامٌ تام
Thus, the language of the Arabs testifies; only complete speech is spoken.
يُحْكَى is spoken
PASSIVE present — 'is related, spoken', not 'speaks'. The vowel pattern marks the passive, leaving the speaker unnamed; it pairs with the coming 'except' to mean 'only X gets spoken'.
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وَحَكَى غَيْرُ الْمَأْمُونِ أَنَّ السَّجَّانُ فَطِنَ لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ بِالْمِصْبَاحِ فِي تَسْخِينِ الْمَاءِ،
And another narrator, not al-Ma'mun, reported that the jailer noticed his staying close by the lamp in heating the water.
وَحَكَى and reported
The front wa- joins this to the running narrative, and the verb under it is a completed-action 'related / reported' with its subject built in. Like other speech verbs it sets up a report, here introducing an alternative narrator's version. It hands off to a 'that...' clause carrying what was reported.