Arabic vocabulary

يَفْلِيstroke in Arabic

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

Example sentences

وَأَمَّا حَارِثَةُ فَإِنَّهُ كَانَ يَفْلِي رَأْسَ أُمِّهِ
As for Haritha, he used to stroke his mother's head.
يَفْلِي — he strokes. A present-tense verb with a built-in 'he' subject. Standing under the 'used to' verb before it, this present is pulled into a habitual past: not 'he strokes' now but 'he used to stroke', a customary act. So its present form supplies the action while the earlier verb supplies the repeated-past timing.
From: Mothers and the Companions →

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