Arabic vocabulary

يَأْمُرcommand in Arabic

يَأْمُر is how you say “command” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَأما الْحزن فَلم يَأْمر الله بِهِ وَلَا رَسُوله بل قد نهى عَنهُ فِي مَوَاضِع
As for sadness, God did not command it, nor did His Messenger; rather, it has been prohibited in certain places.
يَأْمُرِ — he commands. Present-form verb, 'commands', read as past 'did command' because of the negation before it, with a vowel adjusted for the following word. Its 'he' subject (Allah) is named just after; the negation makes it 'did not command'.
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