Arabic vocabulary
يُلْحِقُ is how you say “to afflict” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وينسى ما يلحقه من الأمراض والأسقام، وما يعتريه من الكبر والهرم،
And forgets what afflicts him of diseases and ailments, and what befalls him of old age and senility,
يُلْحِقُهُ — afflicts him. A present-tense verb with an attached 'him' as its object, inside the 'what' clause: what reaches him. The verb carries its own subject, and the suffix marks the man as the one it befalls.
From: A Path to Mercy →OpenArabic teaches words like يُلْحِقُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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