Arabic vocabulary
تَلاَعَبْتُtoy with in Arabic
تَلاَعَبْتُ is how you say “toy with” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
لَوْ كَانُوا مِنَ النَّاسِ مَا تَلاَعَبْتُ بِهِمْ
If they had been from the people, I would not have toyed with them.
تَلاَعَبْتُ — I would have toyed. A past verb on a reciprocal/playful pattern carrying a first-person '-tu' as subject, 'I toyed'. Negated and inside the counterfactual it reads 'I would not have toyed', the unreal consequence. It leads into 'with them' naming whom he would have spared.
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