اِقْتَطَعَtook in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَأَنَّهُ اِقْتَطَعَ مِنْ مَالِهَا كَذَا وَكَذَا،

  and that he had taken such and such from its funds.

  اِقْتَطَعَ — he had taken. A derived-pattern past verb 'cut off / appropriated', whose built-up reflexive shape carries the 'take a slice for oneself' sense. It carries its own 'he' subject and heads the reported charge.

  From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →