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تَغْتَمْ be distressed in Arabic

تَغْتَمْ is how you say “be distressed” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

From Luqman's Wisdom and Trial

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