مَخَافَةً fearing in Arabic
مَخَافَةً is how you say “fearing” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فَوَثَبْتُ عَلَيْهِ فَأَخَذْتُ بِيَدِهِ مَخَافَةً أَنْ يَأْخُذَنِي
I leaped at him and seized his hand, fearing that he might take me.
مَخَافَة fearing
This noun names a state of mind, 'out of fear', and it works adverbially to say why the narrator acted, taking the object-style ending Arabic uses for such 'because of' nouns. It sets up the worry-clause that follows. So it explains the motive behind the seizing.
The English is machine-translated.

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