تهافت

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Arabic

Root
ه ف ت (h f t)
1 term

Verb

تَهَافَتَ (tahāfata) VI (non-past يَتَهَافَتُ (yatahāfatu), verbal noun تَهَافُت (tahāfut))

  1. to scramble, to press into or upon, to throng, to scour, to flock, to descend 
  2. to be infatuated, to be head over heels into 
    • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, pages 181–182:
      فإنّ المجتمع الشرقي سينظر إليه كفحل، ولن تتأثر سمعته البتة، بل على العكس، ستتهافت عليه النساء حبّاً في رجولته!
      If Eastern society is going to look upon him as a stud, this will not have an influence about his repute at all, but on the contrary, the women will get a crush on him due to his virility!
  3. to overstep the limits of one’s intellectual capacity, to have a nervous breakdown or start being incoherent, self-destruction

Conjugation