A new word or phrase from the Hans Wehr dictionary, every Wednesday.
شطحة šaṭḥa pl. šaṭaḥāt escapade
Root: ش-ط-ح
Page: 550*
Example: “لَمْ تُرِدْ أَن تَسمَعَ عَن أَيِّ مِن الشَطَحاتِ اَلَّتي قامَ بِها في غِيابِها”
Translation: “she didn’t want to hear about whatever escapades he got up to in her absence”
Notes:
- In the dictionary, we also find a cool collocation of this word: شَطَحات خَيالِهِ, meaning “unbridled excesses of the imagination” or “extravagant fantasy”. The form I verb creates a similar meaning in the phrase شَطَحَ في خَيالِهِ: “to make too wide a use of unbridled imagination (author)”
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* The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th Edition
The Arabic Pages 