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تَخَلَّى
to give up (on), to abandon /taˈxallaː/
verbA2#1304 most common
Also: to relinquish, to renounce, to forsake
Example sentences
تَخَلَّى عَنِّي.
He abandoned me.
لا تَتَخَلَّ عَنْ أَصْدِقائِكَ.
Do not abandon your friends.
تَخَلَّتْ عَنْ عَمَلِها لِتَرْعى أَطْفالَها.
She gave up her job to look after her children.
لَنْ أَتَخَلَّى عَنْ مَبادِئِي مَهْما حَدَثَ.
I will not give up my principles, no matter what happens.
اِضْطُرَّ الفَريقُ إِلى أَنْ يَتَخَلَّى عَنْ خُطَّتِهِ الأَصْلِيَّةِ بَعْدَ فَشَلِ المُفاوَضاتِ.
The team was forced to abandon its original plan after the negotiations failed.
لَمْ يَتَخَلَّ المُفَكِّرُ عَنْ قَناعاتِهِ رَغْمَ الضُّغوطِ، بَلْ تَمَسَّكَ بِها حَتّى آخِرِ لَحْظَةٍ.
The thinker did not relinquish his convictions despite the pressures; instead he held on to them until the last moment.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَتَخَلَّى | تَخَلَّيْتُ | سَأَتَخَلَّى |
| 2sg | تَتَخَلَّى | تَخَلَّيْتَ | سَتَتَخَلَّى |
| 3sg | يَتَخَلَّى | تَخَلَّى | سَيَتَخَلَّى |
| 1pl | نَتَخَلَّى | تَخَلَّيْنا | سَنَتَخَلَّى |
| 2pl | تَتَخَلَّوْنَ | تَخَلَّيْتُمْ | سَتَتَخَلَّوْنَ |
| 3pl | يَتَخَلَّوْنَ | تَخَلَّوْا | سَيَتَخَلَّوْنَ |
Word family
التَّخَلِّيabandonment, relinquishment (verbal noun)
خَلاto be empty, to be free ofخَلْوةseclusion, privacy
خالٍempty, vacant
خَلاءvoid, open space
Etymology
تَخَلَّى is the Form V (reflexive) verb of the root خ-ل-و, whose base sense is being empty or free of something. The plain verb خَلا means to be vacant or to be rid of a thing. Adding the prefix تـ and doubling the middle radical turns the sense back on the subject: to make oneself free of something, that is, to give it up. It almost always takes the preposition عن.
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