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مَصَّ suck in Arabic

مَصَّ is how you say “suck” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

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