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حَرَق

[ħa.raɡ]

verb

LanguageHijazi Arabic (Saudi Arabia)

Meaning
  1. to burn
  2. to set fire to
  3. to spoil, to tell (a person) details of how a story ends
  4. To set something on fire or destroy it with fire. It can also mean to ruin the ending of a movie or story.
Examples

لا تحرق الأوراق.

Do not burn the papers.

Pronunciationħa.raɡ

Part of speechverb

Usage noteIn a figurative sense, it is commonly used to mean spoiling the surprise or ending of a story.

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حَرَق in other languages

Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.