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تفاجأ
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Arabic
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
تَفَاجَأَ • (tafājaʔa) VI (non-past يَتَفَاجَأُ (yatafājaʔu), verbal noun تَفَاجُؤ (tafājuʔ))
- to be overtaken, to be descended upon or confronted unexpectedly, to be ambushed
- 2017 October 24, “بوابات الاحتلال في الولجة تمهد لعزل المواطنين عن اراضيهم”, in AlQuds.com, archived from the original on 24 October 2017:
- .لكن الحاج برغوث ابونضال (70 عاما) تفاجأ خلال قبل عدة ايام بقيام سلطات الاحتلال الاسرائيلية بوضع بوابة حديدة على مدخل النفق الذي يوصله الى مقبرة العائلة خلف الجدار العنصري
- But pilgrim Barġūṯ Abū Niḍāl has been surprised some days ago by the undertaking of the Israeli occupation force to place a new gate in front of the entrance of the tunnel that connects him with the cemetery of his family behind the apartheid wall.
Conjugation
Etymology 2
Verb
تفاجأ (form III)
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South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Arabic تَفَاجَأَ (tafājaʔa).
Pronunciation
Verb
تفاجأ • (tfājaʔ) VI (present بتفاجأ (bitfājaʔ))
Conjugation
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