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زرت

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to the act of choking or strangling someone. It describes the physical action of constricting the throat, leading to suffocation.

Derived headwords

زَرَدَverb
  1. 1.
    to chokeclassical

    To cause someone to choke or suffocate by constricting their throat.

زُرْتُهُverb
  1. 1.
    to choke himclassical

    This is the past tense, second-person singular form of the verb 'to choke', indicating the action was performed by the speaker upon a male subject.

Parallel reading

زرده وزرته إذا خنقه
He choked him and I choked him if he strangled him.