تَتَزَلْزَلُtrembles

Example sentences

• 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.

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