Arabic vocabulary
مَصَّsuck in Arabic
مَصَّ is how you say “suck” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
قَالَ أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ كَأَنِّي أَنْظُرُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَمَصُّ إِصْبَعَهُ
Abu Hurayrah said: I seem to see the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, sucking his finger.
يَمَصُّ — sucking. A present-shape verb, 'he sucks', carrying its 'he', describing the Prophet's remembered gesture. Set in the past memory it pictures an ongoing action -- the imagined finger-sucking caught mid-act.
From: Those Who Spoke in the Cradle →
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