What grammatical effect does “lam” have in “lam yatakhaddad”?
Ṭarafah ibn al-ʿAbd: Ruins, Ships, Gazelle, and Beauty (Verses 1–10)
- it makes the imperfect jussive and negates a past event
- it turns the verb into an imperative
- it makes a subjunctive future assertion
- it governs a genitive noun