أَفْلَا why not in Arabic
أَفْلَا is how you say “why not” in Arabic.
Arabic
English
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Example sentence
قَالَ أَفْلَا جَارِيَةً تُلاَعِبُهَا وَتُلاَعِبُكَ
He said, "Why not a slave-girl who will play with her and with you?"
أَفْلَا why not
This bundles a question marker with a negation to form a 'why not...?' that is really a gentle suggestion, not a real question. Its job is to nudge the listener toward the idea that comes next rather than to ask for information.
The English is machine-translated.

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