Arabic vocabulary
يَتَأَخَّرَ is how you say “to delay” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَأَوْمَأَ إِلَيْهِ النَّبِيُّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ بِأَنْ لَا يَتَأَخَّرَ
Then the Prophet gestured to him not to delay.
يَتَأَخَّرَ — to delay. A present-tense verb governed by the negation and the subordinator before it; together they form 'not to delay/step back'. The 'he' subject is built into the verb's shape.
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