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Arabic word

لَيْتَ

if only

Type
Particle

Example

ليتَ الشبابَ يعودُ. — If only youth would return.

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وليته على الأقل وضعها بين علامتي تنصيص كما فعل المؤلف I wish he had at least put it in quotation marks as the author did.
" يا ليت آدم كان طلق أمهم "I wish Adam had divorced their mother."
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