قَاسَىendures

Example sentences

• والبنين وكم صغر قاسى الأب لأجل الصغار، فلما ترقوا فعقوا والعقوق من الذنوب الكبار،

  And the children, how much hardship the father endures for the sake of the young; but when they grow up, they disobey, and disobedience is among the grave sins,

  قَاسَى — he endured. A past-tense verb meaning 'endured / suffered through', with its subject following as a separate noun rather than built in. The verb comes before that subject, which is the normal Arabic order, so the doer of the enduring is named just after the action.

  From: Preferring the Hereafter →

• وَكَمْ صِغَرٍ قَاسَى الأَبُ لِأَجَلِّ الصِّغَارِ،

  And how often the father endured hardship for the little ones,

  قَاسَى — endured. A past-tense verb 'endured / suffered' carrying a third-person masculine 'he', with its doer named in the following word. The verb-before-subject order is the standard Arabic arrangement, so the action is stated first and 'the father' identified after. It reports the hardship undergone.

  From: This World Is Short →