تماوت

Arabic

Verb

تَمَاوَتَ • (tamāwata) VI, non-past يَتَمَاوَتُ‎ (yatamāwatu)

  1. to pretend to die
    • 8th century, Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffa’, edited by Taha Hussein, Kalilah wa-Dimnah, Cairo, Egypt: Al-Ma'ārif, published 1941:
      ثُمَّ تَمَاوَتَتْ، وَجَعَلَتْ تَطْفُو عَلَى وَجْهِ المَاءِ مُنْقَلِبَةً، فَأَخَذَاهَا فَأَلْقَيَاهَا عَلَى الأَرْضِ غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ مِنَ النَّهْرِ، فَوَثَبَتْ فِيهِ فَنَجَتْ مِنْهُمَا
      ṯumma tamāwatat, wajaʕalat taṭfū ʕalā wajhi l-māʔi munqalibatan, faʔaḵaḏāhā faʔalqayāhā ʕalā l-ʔarḍi ḡayra baʕīdin mina n-nahri, fawaṯabat fīhi fanajat minhumā
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Conjugation

Noun

تَمَاوُت • (tamāwut) m

  1. verbal noun of تَمَاوَتَ (tamāwata) (form VI)

Declension

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