Arabic vocabulary
مَصَّsuck
How to say “suck” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
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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