Arabic vocabulary

تَعَطَّلَتْstopped working in Arabic

تَعَطَّلَتْ is how you say “stopped working” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَأَقْلَعَ أَشْجَارًا بُسْتَانِهَا، وَتَعَطَّلَتْ المَرَاوِزُ،
And someone uprooted the trees of her orchard, and the waterwheels stopped working.
وَتَعَطَّلَتْ — and it stopped working. 'Wa-' adds a parallel clause, attaching to a past verb in a self-action pattern 'stopped working / fell idle'. The -t ending marks a feminine-singular subject ('the waterwheels', treated as a unit) which comes after the verb; the pattern frames the stopping as happening of itself.
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