Arabic vocabulary

تَطَاوَلَto compete in Arabic

تَطَاوَلَ is how you say “to compete” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

قَالَ أَنْ تَلِدَ الْأَمَةُ رَبَّتَهَا، وَأَنْ تَرَى الْحُفَاةَ الْعُرَاةَ الْعَالَةَ رِعَاءَ الشَّاءِ يَتَطَاوَلُونَ فِي الْبُنْيَانِ
He said, 'That a slave woman will give birth to her mistress, and that you will see barefoot, unclothed, destitute shepherds competing in erecting tall buildings.'
يَتَطَاوَلُونَ — they compete. A present-tense verb 'they vie/compete' whose -un ending carries the built-in 'they' subject, a masculine plural. It describes what those shepherds do, completing the scene. The plural is folded into the verb's ending, so no separate 'they' is written.
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