Arabic vocabulary
تَتَزَلْزَلُ is how you say “trembles” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
وَيَنْسَى مَا قَدْ كَانَ مِمَّا تَتَزَلْزَلُ الأَرْضُ لِبَعْضِهِ
And he forgets what had been, even when the earth trembles because of part of it!
تَتَزَلْزَلُ — trembles. A present-tense 'she/it' verb on a reduplicated pattern that paints repeated, shaking motion, here 'trembles/quakes'. Its feminine form agrees with its subject 'the earth', which comes right after it. The shape of the word itself, with its doubled sounds, mirrors the shuddering it describes.
From: Preparing for Death and Repentance →OpenArabic teaches words like تَتَزَلْزَلُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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