Arabic vocabulary
How to say “twist” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
أجل فكرك في أركانك وتدبر بناء بنانك ويكفي في العبر نطق لسانك كلما تلوى،
Reflect on your own limbs and consider the construction of your fingertips; it is enough as a lesson that your tongue speaks whenever it turns.
تَلَوَّى — it twists. A present-tense verb with a built-in 'it' subject, inside the 'whenever' frame just set. It supplies the recurring action, the turning of the tongue, that the speech is bound to each time it occurs.
From: All Creation Praises Him →OpenArabic teaches words like لَوَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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