Arabic vocabulary
تَغْتَمْbe distressed
How to say “be distressed” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَالَ لَهُ لُقْمَانُ لَا تَغْتَمْ فَإِنَّ لَكَ عِنْدِي فَرْجًا
Then Luqman said to him, "Do not be distressed, for indeed you have relief with me."
تَغْتَمْ — be distressed. A present-tense verb 'be distressed' pushed into its clipped (jussive) shape by the preceding prohibitive, so together they mean 'do not be distressed'. The 'you' addressee is carried in its prefix. The shortened ending is the visible trace of the prohibition governing it.
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