يَعْتَرِي to befall in Arabic
يَعْتَرِي is how you say “to befall” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
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,
يَعْتَرِيهِ befalls him
A present-tense verb with an attached 'him' as its object, inside this clause: what overtakes him. The subject is inside the verb; the suffix marks him as the one it comes upon.
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أخيال يعتري المبتدع أو جنون أو مس،
Is it an illusion that afflicts the innovator, or madness or possession?
يَعْتَرِي it afflicts
A present-tense verb with its subject, 'illusion', understood from the question, and the implied object 'the innovator' following. The present form casts the afflicting as a recurring possibility being weighed.