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قَهِرَ be overcome in Arabic

قَهِرَ is how you say “be overcome” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَمَثَلُ الأَوَّلِ كَرَجُلٍ صَارَعَ رَجُلًا شَدِيدًا فَلَا يُقْهَرُ إِلَّا بِتَعَبٍ وَمِشْقَةٍ

And the example of the first is like a man who wrestled a very strong man; he is not overcome except by fatigue and hardship.

يُقْهَرُ is overcome

A present-tense verb in its passive shape: the man is the one acted upon, thrown, rather than the one throwing. Arabic does not add a helper like 'is'; it marks the passive by changing the vowels inside the verb, which is what flips the doer into the receiver here.

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