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بالَغ
to exaggerate /ˈbaː.la.ɣa/
verbB1#2618 most common
Also: to overdo, to go to extremes, to overstate
Example sentences
لا تُبالِغ!
Don't exaggerate!
هو يُبالِغ دائماً في كلامه.
He always exaggerates when he talks.
بالَغَتْ سارة في وصف الحادث.
Sarah exaggerated in describing the accident.
لا أريد أن أُبالِغ، لكن هذا أفضل مطعم زرته في حياتي.
I don't want to exaggerate, but this is the best restaurant I've ever visited.
بالَغَت الحكومة في تقدير حجم النمو الاقتصادي هذا العام، مما أثار شكوك المحللين.
The government overestimated the scale of economic growth this year, which raised analysts' doubts.
يتهم النقاد الكاتب بأنه بالَغ في تصوير معاناة الشخصية الرئيسية لدرجة أفقدت الرواية مصداقيتها الواقعية.
Critics accuse the writer of exaggerating the main character's suffering to a degree that cost the novel its realistic credibility.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُبالِغ | بالَغْتُ | سَأُبالِغ |
| 2sg | تُبالِغ | بالَغْتَ | سَتُبالِغ |
| 3sg | يُبالِغ | بالَغَ | سَيُبالِغ |
| 1pl | نُبالِغ | بالَغْنا | سَنُبالِغ |
| 2pl | تُبالِغون | بالَغْتُم | سَتُبالِغون |
| 3pl | يُبالِغون | بالَغوا | سَيُبالِغون |
Word family
بَلَغَto reach, arrive at
بُلوغattainment, coming of age
مُبالَغةexaggeration
بَليغeloquent
بَلاغةeloquence, rhetoric
Etymology
The root ب-ل-غ carries the core sense of reaching or attaining a limit. Form I بَلَغ means he reached or arrived at something. Form III بالَغ, built on the فاعَل template that often marks effortful or extended action, shifts this to he made something reach beyond its proper limit. In practice that means he exaggerated. The pattern's intensive shape signals sustained effort, and here that effort pushes a claim or action past what the facts support.
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