Arabic vocabulary
How to say “gather/keep” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
وَالْخَوْف يجمعها على الطَّرِيق
Fear kept them on the road.
يَجْمَعُ — gathers them. A present-tense verb 'gathers / keeps together', subject 'it' (fear) inside, the predicate. Fear holds the caravan together.
From: Stages of the Seeker →وَهِي اسْم يجمع كَمَال الذل ونهايته وَكَمَال الْحبّ لله ونهايته
And it is a term that encompasses complete humility at its highest degree, and complete love for Allah at its highest degree.
يَجْمَعُ — that encompasses. A present-tense verb with a built-in 'it/he' subject that opens a clause describing the preceding noun. Placed right after an indefinite noun, such a clause works like a relative 'that encompasses...' even though Arabic uses no separate 'that' here.
From: Worship and Repentance →وَإِنَّمَا الْعِبَادَة مَا يجمع كَمَال الْأَمريْنِ
Rather, worship is what combines the completion of both matters.
يَجْمَعُ — it combines. A present-tense verb with a built-in 'it' subject that opens the clause defining 'what'. It describes the action of bringing things together, completing the relative phrase that defines worship.
From: Worship and Repentance →يَجْمَعُ اللَّهُ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
Allah will gather the believers on the Day of Resurrection.
يَجْمَعُ — he gathers. A present-tense verb for a single male doer with the 'he' fused into its prefix, but the timing here is future: Arabic's present form readily carries 'will' when the context is a coming event, with no separate future word needed. So the gathering is yet to happen. Its subject, the divine name, follows immediately.
From: Intercession on Judgment Day →OpenArabic teaches words like يَجْمَعُ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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